- Design and description
- Construction and career
- Notes
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | UK|naval}} | Ship name=HMS C34 | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=HM Dockyard Chatham | Ship laid down=29 March 1909 | Ship launched=8 June 1910 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=17 September 1910 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship renamed= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship homeport= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship fate=Sunk 17 July 1917 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=C-class submarine | 290|LT|t|abbr=on}} surfaced- {{convert|320|LT|t|abbr=on}} submerged
| 142|ft|3|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | 13|ft|7|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | 11|ft|6|in|1|abbr=on}} | 600|bhp|kW|lk=in|abbr=on}} petrol- {{convert|300|hp|kW|abbr=on}} electric
| Ship propulsion=*1 × 16-cylinder Vickers petrol engine | 13|kn|abbr=on|lk=in}} surfaced- {{convert|8|kn|abbr=on}} submerged
| 910|nmi|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|12|kn|abbr=on}} on the surface | 100|ft|1}} | Ship complement=2 officers and 14 ratings | Ship armament=2 × 18 in (450 mm) bow torpedo tubes | Ship notes=
}} | HMS C34 was one of 38 C-class submarines built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The boat was sunk by a German submarine in 1917. Design and descriptionThe C-class boats of the 1907–08 and subsequent Naval Programmes were modified to improve their speed, both above and below the surface. The submarine had a length of {{convert|142|ft|3|in|m|1}} overall, a beam of {{convert|13|ft|7|in|m|1}} and a mean draft of {{convert|11|ft|6|in|m|1}}. They displaced {{convert|290|LT|t}} on the surface and {{convert|320|LT|t}} submerged. The C-class submarines had a crew of two officers and fourteen ratings.[1] For surface running, the boats were powered by a single 12-cylinder[2] {{convert|600|bhp|lk=in|0|adj=on}} Vickers petrol engine that drove one propeller shaft. When submerged the propeller was driven by a {{convert|300|hp|0|adj=on}} electric motor.[1] They could reach {{convert|13|kn|lk=in}} on the surface and {{convert|8|kn}} underwater. On the surface, the C class had a range of {{convert|910|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|12|kn}}.[3] The boats were armed with two 18-inch (45 cm) torpedo tubes in the bow. They could carry a pair of reload torpedoes, but generally did not as they would have to remove an equal weight of fuel in compensation.[4] Construction and careerHMS C34 was built by HM Dockyard, Chatham for the Royal Navy. She was laid down on 29 March 1909 and was commissioned on 17 September 1910. The boat was sunk by the Imperial German Navy submarine {{SMU|U-52||2}} off Fair Isle in Shetland while on the surface on 17 July 1917. The only survivor was picked up by U-52.[5] Notes1. ^1 Gardiner & Gray, p. 87
2. ^Harrison, Chapter 25
3. ^Harrison, Chapters 3
4. ^Harrison, Chapter 27
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/1019.html |title=C 34 |publisher=Uboat.net |accessdate=9 October 2012}}
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=dmy-all}}
External links- HMS C34 Roll of Honour
- 'Submarine losses 1904 to present day' - Royal Navy Submarine Museum
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