HMS G11
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS G11 |
| Builder: | Vickers |
| Laid down: | 28 March 1915 |
| Launched: | 22 February 1916 |
| Commissioned: | 13 May 1916 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 22 November 1918 off Howick, Northumberland |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Surfaced / Submerged: 703 tons / 837 tons |
| Length: | 57.5 m |
| Beam: | 6.92 m |
| Draught: | 4.15 m |
| Propulsion: |
Twin-shaft, 2 x 800 bhp Vickers diesel, 2 x 840 shp electric motors |
| Speed: | Surfaced / Submerged: 14.5 knots (27 km/h) / 10.0 knots |
| Range: | 44.14 tons of fuel oil giving 3,160 nm surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h). 95 nm submerged, at 3 knots (6 km/h). |
| Complement: | 31 |
| Armament: | Torpedoes: 2 x 18" bow tubes, 2 x 18" beam tubes, 1 x 21" stern tube. 10 torpedoes in total. Guns: 1 x 3" 10 cwt. Mk.1 Elswick Quick Fire High Angle {QFHA}, forward. 1 x 12 pdr. 8 cwt. Mk. 1 gun HA mounting, aft. |
HMS G11 was a British G class submarine of the Royal Navy from World War I.
On 22 November 1918 G11 was heading home to its base at Blyth, Northumberland following the announcement of the Armistice when she ran aground off Howick in Northumberland in poor weather conditions. Two of the crew died during the evacuation that followed.
Lt Richard Douglas Sandford VC, who had been admitted to Eston hospital suffering from typhoid fever, died the day after learning G11, his last command, had been lost.
[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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