HMS B8
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| Name: | HMS B8 |
| Builder: | Vickers |
| Launched: | 23 January 1906 |
| Completed: | 10 April 1906 |
| Fate: | Sold 31 October 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 287 tons surfaced 316 tons submerged |
| Length: | 135 ft (41 m) |
| Beam: | 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m) |
| Speed: | 12 kn (22 km/h) surfaced 7 kn (13 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 1,300 nmi (2,400 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h) surfaced |
| Complement: | 15 |
| Armament: | 2 × 18 in (460 mm) bow torpedo tubes |
HMS B8 was a Royal Navy B class submarine, built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness, launched 23 January 1906 and completed 10 April 1906.
B8 was deployed to the Mediterranean soon after the outbreak of World War I. Due to the lack of spare parts this group of submarines were not used after September 1915. In 1917 the Italian Navy converted B8 into to surface patrol boat S8 to serve in the Adriatic.
B8 was sold on October 31, 1919 in Malta.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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