RN Submarines: C Class 1905

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RN Submarines: C Class 1905

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A Class of 38 submarines, the last of the petrol driven boats, built by Vickers at Barrow and HM Dockyard at Chatham. Built between 1905 and 1910.
C11 was lost off Cromer in 1911 after colliding with the Collier Eddystone. The remainder all served in the First World war, with the following casualties:
C26, C27 and C35 were all scuttled off Helsinki in 1918 to avoid capture.
C29 was sunk by a mine in the Humber Estuary in 1915.
C31 was sunk by a mine off Zeebrugge in 1915.
C32 ran aground and was blown up to avoid capture in 1917.
C33 was sunk by a mine off Great Yarmouth in 1915.
C35 was sunk by a German submarine off Fair Isle, while on the surface, in 1917.
Some photos (Thanks to Astraltrader and Balticsubs for sharing some of these images on the old Forum):

C1

C1_3[2].jpg

C2 & C3

hms 'c2' & 'c3',-at gt.yarmouth,1908.jpg

C4

hms 'c4',built by vickers,launched 18101906.sold for breaking up 2821922a jimbocard.jpg

C5

C5_1[1].jpg

C6

subs2[1].jpg

C7

hms c7.jpg

C8

c8 at shotley.jpg

C9

C9.jpg

C10

hms c10.jpg

C11

C11[1].jpg

C12

C 12 at Torbay (1912).jpg

C13

C13_2[1].jpg

C14

hms c14.jpg

C15

submarine-c15.jpg

C16

hms c16.jpg

C17

hms c17.jpg

C18

hms c18.jpg

C19

C-ClassDundee_C28, C25, C22, C29, C19, C27, C24, C23, and C30.jpg

C20

C20[1].JPG

C21

HMS C21.jpg

C22

hms c22.jpg

C23

hms c23.jpg

C24

C24_2[1].jpg

C25

C.25.jpg

C26

hms c26 built by vickers,launched 2031909.sunk in helsingfors bay,to avoid capture,441918.raised 1954 and broken up.a jimbocard.jpg

C27

hms c27.jpg
c27 in russia.JPG

C28, C29 & C30

C-ClassDundee_C28, C25, C22, C29, C19, C27, C24, C23, and C30.jpg

C31

hms 'c31',built by vickers,launched 291909.sunk,off coast of belguim,cause unknown,411915a jimbocard.jpg

C32

hms c32.jpg

C33

hms c33.jpg

C34

hms c34.jpg

C35

hms c35.jpg

C36

hms c36.jpg

C37

hms c37.jpg

C38

C 38 (1910'S.) leaving Porstmouth.jpg

Other C Class photos:

C class (1915) on way to Baltic.jpg
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Re: RN Submarines: C Class 1905

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"Today was another day of learning " thank you Jim , whilst not being a follower of British Submarines , [out go ignorance .....not choice ] I had always thought of our knowledge as a 2nd runner to our friends across the channel who seemed to run rings around us in most things to do with submarines ....but I say that from a basis of ignorance not knowledge .....and I am always willing to learn . :oops:
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C.1. Leaving Admiralty pier at Shotley in 1912
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C2 and C5 alongside HMS Ganges c1912

Please note that C38 shown above, earlier in the thread is also alongside Admiralty pier.
The boats are cutters, used to teach the Boys pulling/rowing and sailing.
Earlier ones were lugsail rigged.
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C Class Submarine HMS C-32 pictured being loaded onto a floating drydock at Petrograd in 1916.......On the August 3rd 1916, the submarines C26, C27, C32 and C35 were deployed to the Baltic theatre of operations. Their tortuous journey started whilst under tow from Chatham Docks and then onto Archangel (North Western Russia) where they arrived on the August 22nd 1916. From here they were loaded onto barges and transported via rivers and canals to Petrograd, which they reached on September 9th 1916. From here they went onto Kronstadt. These four operated in the Baltic Sea, based at Tallinn as part of the blockade of Germany trying to prevent the import of iron ore from Sweden.Three of these boats were scuttled (along with the British E-class Submarines E1, E8, E9, E19) outside Helsinki in 1918 to prevent capture by German troops of the Baltic Sea Division who had landed nearby.
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