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First submerged sub versus sub encounter?
Posted by:
Per Nordenberg
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Date: March 12, 2007 11:25AM
Hello
This is my first post in this forum. The British R-class submarines were the first designed specifically to attack and sink other submarines, a forerunner of the modern hunter-killers. For this purpose they were designed to be faster underwater (14 knots {26kph, 16mph}) than on the surface (9 knots {17kph, 10mph}).
According to wikipedia, operating out of Killybegs, Donegal, one of the class reportedly tracked and fired on a German U-Boat in October 1918; the torpedo hit but failed to explode. Does anyone have info on this incident? I'm especially interested in whether this indeed was the world's first submerged sub versus sub encounter. If so it is almost breathtaking to think about. If the German sub would have been hit and sunk at this engagement it would most probably have had profound effects on the postwar development of submarines.
[en.wikipedia.org]
Regards,
Per Nordenberg
This is my first post in this forum. The British R-class submarines were the first designed specifically to attack and sink other submarines, a forerunner of the modern hunter-killers. For this purpose they were designed to be faster underwater (14 knots {26kph, 16mph}) than on the surface (9 knots {17kph, 10mph}).
According to wikipedia, operating out of Killybegs, Donegal, one of the class reportedly tracked and fired on a German U-Boat in October 1918; the torpedo hit but failed to explode. Does anyone have info on this incident? I'm especially interested in whether this indeed was the world's first submerged sub versus sub encounter. If so it is almost breathtaking to think about. If the German sub would have been hit and sunk at this engagement it would most probably have had profound effects on the postwar development of submarines.
[en.wikipedia.org]
Regards,
Per Nordenberg
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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First submerged sub versus sub encounter? | Per Nordenberg | 03/12/2007 11:25AM |
Re: First submerged sub versus sub encounter? | Dirk | 03/13/2007 06:59AM |
Re: First submerged sub versus sub encounter? | kurt | 03/15/2007 08:52PM |
Re: First submerged sub versus sub encounter? | Oliver Lörscher | 03/16/2007 05:38PM |
Re: First submerged sub versus sub encounter? | Dirk | 03/16/2007 08:35PM |
Re: First submerged sub versus sub encounter? | James Pratt | 03/25/2007 01:01AM |