HMS A3

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HMS A3 was an Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She sank in 1912. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England.

Design and description

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The boats were armed with two 18-inch (45 cm) torpedo tubes in the bow. They could carry a pair of reload torpedoes, but generally did not as doing so that they had to compensate for their weight by an equivalent weight of fuel.Template:Sfn

Construction and career

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Submarine A3. Sunk at Spithead by collision with HMS Hazard, with the loss of 14 lives, 2 February 1912

A3 was laid down by Vickers, Sons & Maxim as Yard No.295 at Barrow-in-Furness on 6 November 1902 and was launched on 9 May 1903.[1][2] She was commissioned on 13 July 1904.[1] She primarily served as a coastal defense and training submarine in her over seven years of service.

On 2 February 1912, A3, along with several other submarines dispatched from the port of Gosport, conducted training exercises on target ships in the Solent.Template:Sfn Whilst attacking the depot ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., the semi-submerged A3 accidentally collided with its target Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of the East Princessa Buoy in the eastern Solent.[3] Its rudder and propeller were both disabled, and the holed submarine sank immediately with all 14 hands lost.Template:Sfn The King sent his immediate condolences to the families of the lost seamen.[3]

The submarine was raised from the bottom on 11 March and was brought into the south lock of Portsmouth dockyard the following day, slung below a salvage lighter; the lock was pumped dry so that the 14 bodies could be recovered and the damages surveyed.[4]

After being towed from Portsmouth to Portland Naval Dockyard, the wreck was towed offshore into Weymouth Bay and, after some technical experiments on the hull, it was sunk as a gunnery target by shells from Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". on 17 May 1912.Template:Sfn[5] In July 2016 the wreck of A3 was officially designated as a protected site.[6]

Notes

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