HMS Holland 5

Type:
Submarine
Class:
Holland (Class Overview)
Builder:
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England
Pennant Number:
None
Ordered:
December 1900
Commissioned:
January 19, 1903
Keel Laid:
N/A
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
June 10, 1902
Stricken:
N/A
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.)


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


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