HMS C7

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Career (UK)
HMS C38 - a typical C-class submarine
Name:	HMS C7
Builder:	Vickers, Barrow
Laid down:	9 December 1905
Launched:	15 February 1907
Commissioned:	23 May 1907
Fate:	Sold for scrapping, 20 December 1919
General characteristics
Class & type:	C-class submarine
Displacement:	287 long tons (292 t) (surfaced) 316 long tons (321 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:	12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) (surfaced) 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) (submerged)
Range:	1,500 nmi (1,700 mi; 2,800 km) at 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) (surfaced) 50 nmi (58 mi; 93 km) at 4.5 kn (5.2 mph; 8.3 km/h) (submerged)
Complement:	16
Armament:	2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes (2 torpedoes)

HMS C7 was a C-class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy. She was laid down on 9 December 1905 and was commissioned on 23 May 1907.

Service history

C7 is often mistakenly credited with sinking UC-68 on 5 April 1917 off the coast of The Netherlands. However, this attack was made against UB-10, which survived.^[1]

C7 was sold on 20 December 1919.

References

↑ McCartney, Innes (2002). Lost Patrols: Submarine Wrecks of the English Channel. Periscope Publishing Ltd. p. 60. ISBN 1904381049

Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010.

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Preceded by: B-class Followed by: D-class List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

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