HMS G2

A G class submarine before bow modification. Photo: R N Submarine Museum, Gosport.
Career
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: 703 tons
submerged: 837 tons
Length:57.5 m (188 ft 8 in)
Beam:6.92 m (22 ft 8 in)
Draught:4.15 m (13 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:Twin-shaft, 2 x 800 bhp Vickers diesel, 2 x 840 shp electric motors
Speed:Surfaced: 14.5 knots (27 km/h)
Submerged: 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-inch bow tubes, 2 x 18-inch beam tubes, 1 x 21-inch stern tube. 10 torpedoes in total. Guns: 1 x 3 inch 10 cwt. Mk.1 Elswick Quick Fire High Angle, forward. 1 x 12-pdr 8-cwt Mk I gun HA mounting, aft.

HMS G2 was a British G class submarine of the Royal Navy.[1]

Like the rest of her class, G2's role was to patrol the North Sea in search of German U-boats. On 27 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.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy from World War I. (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
  2. ↑ Arthur, M. (1997). Lost voices of the Royal Navy, pp. 85 - 87. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, London. ISBN 0-340-83814-0