HMS H8 was a
British H-class submarine
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built by the
Canadian Vickers
Canadian Vickers Limited was an aircraft and shipbuilding company that operated in Canada during the early part of the 20th century until 1944. A subsidiary of Vickers Limited, it built its own aircraft designs as well as others under licence. C ...
Co.,
Montreal
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. She was laid down on 19 May 1915 and commissioned in June 1915.
Like other Canadian-built submarines, she was sailed across the Atlantic for service in the North Sea and as recognition of this she initially remained under the command of her Canadian captain, Lieutenant-Commander B. L. Johnson, R.N.R. with a largely reserve crew. HMS ''H8'' was sold on 29 November 1921 in
Arbroath
Arbroath () or Aberbrothock ( gd, Obar Bhrothaig ) is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus, Scotland, with a population of 23,902.
It lies on the North Sea coast some ENE of Dundee and SSW of Aberdeen.
The ...
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Design
Like all pre-''H11''
British H-class submarine
The British H-class submarines were Holland 602 type submarines used by the Royal Navy. The submarines constructed for the British Royal Navy between 1915 and 1919 were designed and built in response to German boats which mined British wate ...
s, ''H8'' had a displacement of at the surface and while submerged.
It had a total length of , a beam of , and a draught of .
It contained a diesel engines providing a total power of and two electric motors each providing power.
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Naval-History
on 20 August 2015. The use of its electric motors made the submarine travel at . It would normally carry of fuel and had a maximum capacity of .
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a submerged speed of . British H-class submarines had ranges of at speeds of .
''H8'' was fitted with a
Hotchkiss quick-firing gun
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(6-pounder) and four
torpedo tube
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There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some surface ships, and deck-mounted units (also referred to as torpedo launchers) installed aboa ...
s. Its torpedo tubes were fitted to the
bows and the submarine was loaded with eight torpedoes.
It is a
Holland 602 type submarine
The Holland 602 type submarine, also known as the H-class submarine, was one of the most numerous submarines of World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disas ...
but was designed to meet Royal Navy specifications. Its
complement
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The arts
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was twenty-two crew members.
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Crew of H8
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British H-class submarines
Ships built in Quebec
1915 ships
World War I submarines of the United Kingdom
Royal Navy ship names