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Name: | HMS C29 |
Builder: | Vickers, Barrow |
Laid down: | 4 June 1908 |
Launched: | 19 June 1909 |
Commissioned: | 17 September 1909 |
Fate: | Sunk by mine, 29 August 1915 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | C-class submarine |
Displacement: | 290 long tons (290 t) (surfaced) 320 long tons (330 t) (submerged) |
Length: | 143 ft 2 in (43.64 m) |
Beam: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
Installed power: | 600 hp (450 kW) (petrol engine) 200 hp (150 kW) (electric motor) |
Propulsion: | 1 × Vickers petrol engine 1 × electric motor 1 × screw |
Speed: | 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h) (surfaced) 8 kn (9.2 mph; 15 km/h) (submerged) |
Range: | 2,000 nmi (2,300 mi; 3,700 km) at 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) (surfaced) 55 nmi (63 mi; 102 km) at 5 kn (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged) |
Complement: | 16 |
Armament: | 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes (2 torpedoes) |
HMS C29 was a British C class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow. She was laid down on 4 June 1908 and was commissioned on 17 September 1909.
C29 sank a merchant ship while patrolling the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic.
C29 was involved in the U-boat trap tactic. The tactic was to use a decoy trawler to tow a submarine. When a U-boat was sighted, the tow line and communication line was slipped and the submarine would attack the U-boat. The tactic was partly successful, but was abandoned after the loss of two C class submarines. In both cases, all the crew were lost.
C29 was one of the two C class submarines sunk because of the tactic. She was mined when her trawler Ariadne strayed into a minefield in the Humber Estuary on 29 August 1915.
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