HMS G10
A G class submarine before bow modification. Photo: R N Submarine Museum, Gosport. | |
Career (UK) | |
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Name: | HMS G10 |
Builder: | Vickers |
Laid down: | 12 March 1915 |
Launched: | 11 January 1916 |
Commissioned: | 12 April 1916 |
Fate: | Sold 20 January 1923 to J Smith |
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 G10 was a British G class submarine of the Royal Navy from World War I.
War service
Like the rest of her class, G10's role was to patrol the North Sea in search of German U-boats. While on exercises, the submarine collided with a merchant vessel resulting in the destruction of the bridge and the periscopes.[1]
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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