HMS C3
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HMS C3 was a British C class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 25 November 1905 and was commissioned on 23 February 1906.
C3 was used packed full of explsoives for destroying a viaduct connecting the mole to the shore during the Zeebrugge Raid on 23 April 1918. Her Captain, Richard Douglas Sandford, received the Victoria Cross for the action
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- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
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