HMS Holland 1

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Holland 1
Holland at full speed over water
Holland at full speed over water
Ship data
flag United KingdomUnited Kingdom (Naval War Flag) United Kingdom
Ship type Submarine
class Holland class
Shipyard Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
Order 1900
Keel laying February 4, 1901
Launch October 2, 1901
Commissioning 1901
Decommissioning November 5, 1913
Whereabouts Museum ship
Ship dimensions and crew
length
19.5 m ( Lüa )
width 3.6 m
displacement 107  t
 
crew 8 men
Machine system
machine Gasoline engine
electric motor
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format
119 kW (162 hp)
Top
speed
13 kn (24 km / h)
Mission data submarine
Immersion depth, max. 15 m
Armament

Holland 1 (also HM submarine Torpedo Boat No. 1 , German " His / Her Majesty underwater - torpedo boat . No. 1") was in 1901 the first submarine of the Royal Navy , so the Navy of the United Kingdom . It is named after the Irish-American engineer John Philip Holland (1841–1914), who designed it.

With him began the history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service ( German  "U-Boot- Flotte der Königlichen Marine " ), when the first six officers were assigned to the newly established service under the command of Reginald Bacon . Shortly thereafter, in 1902 and 1903, its sister submarines Holland 2 to Holland 5 followed .

history

Holland 1 in the outdoor area of ​​the Royal Navy Submarine Museum (photo 1991)
Inside the Holland 1 you can see the torpedo tube and above it the pressurized water tank for firing the torpedo (photo 2008).

After the keel was laid on February 4, 1901 and launched in the same year on October 2 - both in high secrecy - the first diving test in a basin took place on March 20, 1902. In the following month, April 1902, testing began at sea. A diving depth of 15 meters was reached.

Under the command of Captain Bacon, Holland 1 first docked at Portsmouth Naval Base in September 1902 . It was accompanied by a sister submarine of the Holland class , with which it formed the first British submarine flotilla , as well as its supply ship ( tender ), the Hazard .

On March 3, 1903, there was an explosion on board that left four people injured.

In 1913, even before the First World War , Holland 1 , like all Holland- class boats , was considered obsolete and was decommissioned. On November 5th of that year, during the towing for scrapping , the towline broke in heavy seas and the submarine sank about 2000 meters from the Eddystone lighthouse .

On April 14, 1981, the wreck was rediscovered at a depth of 63 meters and was lifted in September 1982. It has been restored and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum exhibited  (photo left) .

literature

  • Richard Compton-Hall: Submarine boats - The beginnings of underwater warfare. Conway Maritime Press, London 1983. ISBN 0-85177-288-9 .
  • Spencer Dunmore: Lost Submarines - From the Hunley to the Kursk, the greatest submarines ever lost - and found. Madison press books, 2002, ISBN 1-903985-48-X .

Web links

Commons : HMS Holland 1  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Technical data , accessed April 11, 2018.
  • Submerged with photos of the wreck underwater, accessed April 10, 2018.
  • MasterMariners (English) with longitudinal section drawing of the submarine, accessed April 10, 2018.
  • MaritimeQuest , accessed April 10, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Compton-Hall: Submarine boats - The beginnings of underwater warfare. Conway Maritime Press, London 1983, p. 120. ISBN 0-85177-288-9 .
  2. Holland Class Submarines Class Overview , accessed April 11, 2018.
  3. ^ Richard Compton-Hall: Submarine boats - The beginnings of underwater warfare. Conway Maritime Press, London 1983, p. 120. ISBN 0-85177-288-9 .
  4. ^ Richard Compton-Hall: Submarine boats - The beginnings of underwater warfare. Conway Maritime Press, London 1983, p. 115. ISBN 0-85177-288-9 .
  5. ^ Richard Compton-Hall: Submarine boats - The beginnings of underwater warfare. Conway Maritime Press, London 1983, p. 140. ISBN 0-85177-288-9 .
  6. ^ Richard Compton-Hall: Submarine boats - The beginnings of underwater warfare. Conway Maritime Press, London 1983, p. 11. ISBN 0-85177-288-9 .
  7. Holland Class Submarines Class Overview , accessed April 11, 2018.
  8. HMS HOLLAND 1 at MasterMariners.org.au (English), accessed April 10, 2018.
  9. Holland Class Submarines Class Overview , accessed April 11, 2018.
  10. ^ Spencer Dunmore: Lost Submarines - From the Hunley to the Kursk, the greatest submarines ever lost - and found. Madison press books, 2002, p. 44. ISBN 1-903985-48-X .