HMS K15

Career
Name: HMS K15
Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
Laid down: 19 April 1916
Commissioned: 30 April 1918
Fate: Sold, August 1924
General characteristics
Class and type:K-class submarine
Displacement:1,980 long tons (2,010 t) surfaced
2,566 long tons (2,607 t) submerged
Length:339 ft (103 m)
Beam:26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
Draught:20 ft 11 in (6.38 m)
Propulsion:2 × 10,500 shp (7.8 MW) Brown-Curtis or Parsons geared steam turbines
2 × Yarrow boilers
4 × 1,440 hp (1,070 kW) electric motors
1 × 800 hp (600 kW) Vickers diesel generator for charging batteries on the surface
2 × 3-blade 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) diameter screws
Speed:24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) surfaced
8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) submerged
Range:Surfaced :
800 nmi (1,500 km; 920 mi) at 24 kn (44 km/h; 28 mph)
12,500 nmi (23,200 km; 14,400 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Submerged :
8 nmi (15 km; 9.2 mi) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
40 nmi (46 mi; 74 km) at 4 kn (4.6 mph; 7.4 km/h)
Complement:59 (6 officers and 53 ratings)
Armament:• 8 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes, (4 beam, 4 bow)
• 8 × spare torpedoes
• 2 × 18 in torpedo tubes fitted on deck (later removed)
• 2 × BL 4 in (100 mm) Mk.XI guns
• 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun

HMS K15 was a K class submarine built by Scotts, Greenock. She was laid down on 19 April 1916 and was commissioned on 30 April 1918.

K15 sank due to an accident, when moored alongside the light cruiser Canterbury at Portsmouth Harbour on 25 June 1921. She was then salved in July 1921. K15 was sold in August 1924 in Upnor.

References