HMS C33
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HMS C33 was a British C class submarine built by HM Dockyard, Chatham. She was laid down on 29 March 1909 and was commissioned on 13 August 1910.
HMS C33 was involved in the U-Boat trap tactic. The tactic was to use a decoy trawler to tow a submarine. Then when a U-boat is sighted, the tow line and communication line is slipped and the submarine would attack the U-boat. The tactic was partly successful but it was abandoned after the loss of 2 C class submarines. In both cases, all the crew were lost.
HMS C33 was the one of the two C class submarines sunk because of the tactic. HMS C33 was mined off Great Yarmouth while operating with the armed trawler Malta on 4 August 1915.
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- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
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