On Oct. 23, 1911 the Royal Navy submarine D-6 was launched at Vickers in Barrow. There were seven boats
in the D class of which four were lost during the war, D-6 was the last one of the class lost when she was
torpedoed by UB-73 on June 24, 1918. D-2 and D-5 were both lost in Nov. 1914 and D-3 in March 1918.
Three of the boats went to the bottom with their entire crews, HMS D-6 was one of them.

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