HMS G7

Career
Builder: Armstrong Whitworth
Launched: 4 March 1916
Commissioned: 21 August 1916
Fate: Sunk October 1918 in the North Sea
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 G7 was a British G class submarine of the Royal Navy from World War I.

War service

Like the rest of her class, G7's role was to patrol the North Sea in search of German U-boats.

Loss

In October 1918 G7 was on patrol in the North Sea. Communications were lost on 23 October and she was declared lost on 1 November.

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