"R" Class Submarine (1918)

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R 7, probably upon her acceptance for service.[1]

A total of ten "R" Class Submarines were completed for the Royal Navy, especially designed to hunt other submarines.

Two units, R 5 and R 6, were cancelled.

Radio

By war's end, all boats of "E" class and later were given 3 kilowatt Poulsen wireless sets, affording ranges of 200 miles submarine-to-submarine, and 300-400 miles between shore stations and submarines. Reception of shore stations of 400 miles was common, and high power shore stations could be received over 500-600 miles.[2]

Torpedoes

  • six 18-in tubes forward, twelve torpedoes

Guns

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 21. Plate 13.
  2. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 21. pp. 16-17.
  3. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 4, Part 28. p. 19.

Bibliography

  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


"R" Class Submarine
R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 7
R 8 R 9 R 10 R 11 R 12
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