- Service history
- C-class boats
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
{{For|ship classes with a similar name|C-class submarine (disambiguation)}}{{refimprove|date=February 2013}}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image= | Ship caption=HMS C38
}}{{Infobox ship class overview | Name=C class | Builders=Vickers, Barrow; HM Dockyard Chatham | UK}} | Class before=B class | Class after=D class | Subclasses=*Group 1 : C-1 — C-18 | Cost= | Built range= | In service range= | In commission range=30 October 1906–1922 | Total ships building= | Total ships planned= | Total ships completed=38 | Total ships cancelled= | Total ships active= | Total ships laid up= | Total ships lost=10 | Total ships retired=28 | Total ships preserved=
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}} | The British C-class submarines were the last class of petrol engined submarines of the Royal Navy and marked the end of the development of the Holland class in the Royal Navy. Thirty-eight were constructed between 1905 and 1910 and they served through World War I. With limited endurance and only a ten percent reserve of buoyancy over their surface displacement, they were poor surface vessels, but their spindle shaped hull made for good underwater performance compared to their contemporaries. Service historyThree (C36, C37 and C38) had been sent to Hong Kong in 1911 and during the war the remainder were mainly used for coastal defence, based at the east coast ports of Leith, Harwich, Hartlepool, Grimsby and Dover, some operating with Q-ships which were decoying U-boats. The technique was for a trawler to tow the submarine and communicate with it by telephone. When a U-boat surfaced to attack the trawler with its deck gun, the British submarine would slip its tow and attempt to torpedo the U-boat. {{HMS|C3||2}}, the first boat commissioned, was employed during the Zeebrugge raid on 23 April 1918. Packed with explosives it was blown up in an attempt to destroy a viaduct, for which her commander Lieutenant Richard Sandford was awarded the Victoria Cross.Four operated in the Baltic Sea, based at Tallinn as part of the blockade of Germany trying to prevent the import of iron ore from Sweden. They were sent there in September 1915 via a tortuous route — towed around the North Cape to Arkhangelsk and taken by barge to Kronstadt. Three of these boats were destroyed (along with the British E class submarines {{HMS|E1||2}}, {{HMS|E8||2}}, {{HMS|E9||2}}, {{HMS|E19||2}}) outside Helsinki in 1918 to prevent capture by German troops of the Baltic Sea Division who had landed nearby.[1] Ten of the submarines were lost during the war, including {{HMS|C16||2}} which was mistakenly rammed by {{HMS|Melampus|1914|6}}. The surviving boats were disposed of at the end of the war with the exception of {{HMS|C4||2}}, which was retained for trials until being scrapped in 1922. Japan also used their own version of the C-class, which they had bought from Vickers, this was the {{sclass-|Ha-1|submarine|2}}, two almost-identical designs came from Ha-1, these were the {{sclass-|Ha-3|submarine|5}} and {{sclass-|Ha-7|submarine|4}}es. C-class boats38 C-class boats were built in total for the RN: {{columns
|col1 =- {{HMS|C1}}
- {{HMS|C2}}
- {{HMS|C3}}
- {{HMS|C4}}
- {{HMS|C5}}
- {{HMS|C6}}
- {{HMS|C7}}
- {{HMS|C8}}
|col2 =- {{HMS|C9}}
- {{HMS|C10}}
- {{HMS|C11}}
- {{HMS|C12}}
- {{HMS|C13}}
- {{HMS|C14}}
- {{HMS|C15}}
- {{HMS|C16}}
|col3 =- {{HMS|C17}}
- {{HMS|C18}}
- {{HMS|C19}}
- {{HMS|C20}}
- {{HMS|C21}}
- {{HMS|C22}}
- {{HMS|C23}}
- {{HMS|C24}}
|col4 =- {{HMS|C25}}
- {{HMS|C26}}
- {{HMS|C27}}
- {{HMS|C28}}
- {{HMS|C29}}
- {{HMS|C30}}
- {{HMS|C31}}
- {{HMS|C32}}
|col5 =- {{HMS|C33}}
- {{HMS|C34}}
- {{HMS|C35}}
- {{HMS|C36}}
- {{HMS|C37}}
- {{HMS|C38}}
}}See also- CC-class submarine
- Japanese Ha-1 class submarine
Notes1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hylyt.net/hylky.jsp?id=c26 |title= C 26 |language=fi}}
References- {{cite book|last=Akermann|first=Paul|title=Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955|edition=reprint of the 1989|year=2002|publisher=Periscope Publishing|location=Penzance, Cornwall|isbn=1-904381-05-7}}
- {{Colledge}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921|year=1984|location=Annapolis, Maryland|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=0-85177-245-5|lastauthoramp=y}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.rnsubs.co.uk/Boats/BR3043/chapter07.php |title=The Development of HM Submarines From Holland No. 1 (1901) to Porpoise (1930) (BR3043) |last=Harrison |first=A. N. |date=January 1979 |publisher=Submariners Association: Barrow in Furness Branch |accessdate=19 August 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150519040644/http://www.rnsubs.co.uk/Boats/BR3043/chapter07.php |archivedate=19 May 2015 |df= }}
External links{{Commons category|British C class submarines}}- MaritimeQuest C Class Overview
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