HMS G2
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Career | |
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Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
Laid down: | 1 October 1914 |
Launched: | 23 December 1915 |
Commissioned: | 18 March 1916 |
Fate: | Sold for scrap 16 January 1920 to Fryer, Sunderland. |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | Surfaced / Submerged: 703 tons / 837 tons |
Length: | 57.5 m |
Beam: | 6.92 m |
Draught: | 4.15 m |
Propulsion: |
Twin-shaft, 2 x 800 bhp Vickers diesel, 2 x 840 shp electric motors |
Speed: | Surfaced / Submerged: 14.5 knots (27 km/h) / 10.0 knots |
Range: | 44.14 tons of fuel oil giving 3,160 nm surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h). 95 nm submerged, at 3 knots (6 km/h). |
Complement: | 31 |
Armament: | Torpedoes: 2 x 18" bow tubes, 2 x 18" beam tubes, 1 x 21" stern tube. 10 torpedoes in total. Guns: 1 x 3" 10 cwt. Mk.1 Elswick Quick Fire High Angle {QFHA}, forward. 1 x 12 pdr. 8 cwt. Mk. 1 gun HA mounting, aft. |
HMS G2 was a British G class submarine of the Royal Navy from World War I.
On 28 October 1918 G2 detected low frequency communications from the German minelayer U-78 and sank her in the Skagerrak with the loss of the crew of 40.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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