HMS Holland 1

Type:
Submarine
Class:
Holland (Class Overview)
Builder:
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England
Pennant Number:
None
Ordered:
December 1900
Commissioned:
February 2, 1903
Keel Laid:
February 4, 1901
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
October 2, 1901
Stricken:
N/A
Fate:
On display at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, England.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
63' 10"

Engines:
1 Wolseley four cylinder gasoline
Beam:
11' 10"
Motors:
1
Draft:
9' 11"
Shafts:
1
Pressure Hull
Horsepower
Length:
N/A
Engines:
160
Diameter:
N/A
Motors:
70
Displacement
Speed
Surfaced:
113
Surfaced:
7.5 knots (design 8 knots)
Submerged:
122
Submerged:
6 knots (design 7)
Diving Depth:
100'
Range
Surfaced:
235 NM @ 7 knots (design 500 NM @ 8 knots)
Crew:
7 (+ 1 trainee)
Submerged:
10 NM @ 5 knots


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range
1
18" (450mm)
Torpedo tube
Bow
800 yards @ 26.5 knots
118 lbs. wet gun-cotton warhead
3 reloads


History:
Oct. 1913:
Sold for scrap.
Nov. 5, 1913:
Sank about 1.5 miles off Eddystone lighthouse while under tow to the
breakers yard in Wales.

Apr. 14, 1981:
Wreck located.
Sept. 1982:
The wreck was raised.


Builder's Data
Page created June 2, 2007