Holland Class Submarines Class Overview

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:
50'
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


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

Oct. 2, 1901
Feb. 2, 1903
Fate
On display at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport, England.
(Sank in tow Nov. 5, 1913 while en route to the breakers yard in Wales.
Aprox. 1.5 miles from Eddystone lighthouse. Wreck found Apr. 14, 1981
and raised in Sept. 1982)
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

Feb. 21, 1902
Aug. 1, 1902
Fate
Sold Oct. 7, 1913 to Pollock & Brown, Southampton, England and scrapped.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

May 9, 1902
Jan. 19, 1903
Fate
Sold Oct. 7, 1913 and scrapped.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

May 23, 1902
Aug. 2, 1903
Fate
Sank Sept. 3, 1912 en route to breakers, raised and sunk as target in 1914.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

June 10, 1902
Jan. 19, 1903
Fate
Sank while under tow Aug. 8, 1912.

Location: English Channel, 12 miles SE of Eastbourne, England.
(50.41.655N - 00.30.867E)

(Wreck located in 1995 by Jerry Dowd. A positive ID of the wreck was made in Apr. 2001.)


Class Notes:
All Holland boats were built under contract from the Electric Boat Co.
A sixth Holland boat was built but, it was considerably altered in design so it became the
HMS A-1 of the A class.

Holland 2 was fitted with a conning tower in 1905, the only one in the class to be so fitted.


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