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Wednesday 16 August 2017

Several submarines for British Royal Navy under construction according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1910-1911 no. 7

An item reported that at the moment 6 submarine were under construction for the British Royal navy of which 3 were to be completed that same year. At Chatham were 2 D-class submarines (1) laid down and on 8 June was the C-34 launched.(2)

Notes
1. This were to be the D9 and D 10 but in fact launched as E1 respectively E 2 on 9 November 1912 and 23 November 1912.
2. Laid down at the HM Dockyard Chatham on 29 March 1909, launched on 8 June 1910, commissioned on 17 September 1910 and sunk by the German submarine U-52 off Fair Isle, Shetland on 17 July 1917.