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HMS K5 was a 2,565-tonne "K" class submarine that served the Royal Navy between 1917 and 1921. Her service ended when she sank during a mock battle in the Bay of Biscay. The K class submarines were a class of steam-propelled submarines of the Royal Navy designed in 1913. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ...
1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
ESA photo, phytoplankton bloom along the Bay of Biscay Not to be confused with the North American Biscayne Bay. ...
Final voyage of HMS K5
The HMS K5 left Torbay on 19 January 1921 with HMS K8, HMS K15, HMS K10 and HMS K22 for a mock battle in the Bay of Biscay. Torbay is an east facing bay at the western most end of Lyme Bay in the south west of England. ...
January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
HMS K13 was a steam-propelled First World War K class submarine of the British Royal Navy. ...
The submarine was being commanded by experienced Lieutenant-Commander John A Gaimes, DSO, RN, with a new crew. Other officers onboard were Lieutenant Frederick W F Cuddeford, Engineer-Lieutenant Edward J Bowler, Acting Engineer-Lieutenant George W Baker, Lieutenant Benjamin J Clark and Acting Lieutenant Robert J M Middlement. 51 others were onboard. In the Royal Navy, United States Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy, Canadian Forces Maritime Command (formerly the Royal Canadian Navy), United States Coast Guard, and many other navies and coast guards, a lieutenant commander (lieutenant-commander or Lt Cdr in the RN and abbreviated LCDR in the...
Jump to: navigation, search Lieutenant-Commander John Austin Gaimes, DSO, was a submarine commander for the Royal Navy. ...
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All 57 hands were lost on 20 January about 120 south-west of the Isles of Scilly. Her ditty box recorded that she had somehow exceeded her maximum depth. Jump to: navigation, search January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
Tresco, the second largest Island of Scillonia The Isles of Scilly (Cornish: Ynysek Syllan) form an archipelago of islands off the Cornish coast. ...
Problems with the K-class Retired Rear-Admiral SS Hall wrote in The Times (24 January 1921, p. 10): "...it may be taken as certain that the loss of the vessel was due to some delay to checking the downward momentum gained by the vessel being overtrimmed in diving, either by admitting compressed air too slowly to too many tanks at one time, to tanks only partially full, or to a sea connexion being closed prematurely." The term Rear Admiral originated from the days of Naval Sailing Squadrons, and can trace its origins to the British Royal Navy. ...
The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ...
The waters where the battle exercises were taking place were so deep that the vessel would have been crushed, lossing control due to the intake of water.
SS Hall wrote that it was "not clear why the 'K' class should be taken for cruises in the Atlantic in winter." He describes the submarines as 'freaks' that were designed especially for the conditions of the North Sea during World War I. "The high surface speed necessitates great length, and the further complication of steam demands very large openings for funnels and air intakes to boiler rooms. These have always been a source of great anxiety in bad weather or in rapid diving." The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ...
Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...
HMS K13 suffered a similar fate during her acceptance trials, when she foundered with the loss of 32 of those onboard. The cause of the was related to the openings SS Hall refers to. HMS K13 was a steam-propelled First World War K class submarine of the British Royal Navy. ...
References "K5 sunk with all hands lost." (24 January, 1921), The Times, p. 10, 11 & 12. The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ...
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