HMS D2
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HMS D2 was a British D class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow. D2 was laid down on 10 July 1909 and was commissioned on 29 March 1911.
During her career, D2 returned from the second Heligoland Bight patrol along with D3, E5 and E7. Then on the 28 August 1914, D2 along with D3 and D8 fought in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. Then, 2 days before D2 met her fate, Lt Cdr Jameson was washed overboard off Harwich. Lt Cdr Head was his replacement.
D2 met her fate on the 25 November 1914. She was rammed and sunk by a German Patrol boat off Borkum leaving no survivors.
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- Submarines, war beneath the waves, from 1776 to the present day, by Robert Hutchinson
- The Royal Navy Submarine Service, A Centennial History, by Antony Preston
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