HMS R8

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HMS R8 was a British R class submarine built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 1 November 1917 and launched 28 June 1918. R8 was commissioned on 26 July 1918. She came too late to see any combat in World War I like most of the other R class submarines. In the Navy List for November 1918 she was based at Donegal.

R8 was sold on 21 February 1923 to E Suren.

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• Submarines, war beneath the waves, from 1776 to the present day, by Robert Hutchinson.
• 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.