- Design and description
- Construction and career
- Notes
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | A|submarine (1903)|0}} submarine | 190|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} surfaced- {{convert|206|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} submerged
| 105|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} | 12|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on|1}} | Ship height= | 10|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on|1}} | Ship depth= | 500|bhp|lk=in|abbr=on}} (heavy oil engine)- {{convert|150|hp|abbr=on}} (electric motor)
| Ship propulsion=*1 × Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine | 11|kn|lk=in}} surfaced- {{convert|6|kn}} submerged
| 400|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|10|kn|abbr=on}} surfaced | Ship test depth= | Ship complement=2 officers and 9 ratings | Ship armament=2 × 18-inch (45 cm) torpedo tubes
}} | HMS A13 was an {{sclass2-|A|submarine (1903)|0}} submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was the first British submarine not to use a petrol engine. After surviving World War I, she was sold for scrap in 1920. Design and descriptionA13 was a member of the first British class of submarines, although slightly larger, faster and more heavily armed than the lead ship, {{HMS|A1}}. The submarine had a length of {{convert|105|ft|1|in|m|1}} overall, a beam of {{convert|12|ft|9|in|m|1}} and a mean draft of {{convert|10|ft|8|in|m|1}}. They displaced {{convert|190|LT|t}} on the surface and {{convert|206|LT|t}} submerged. The A-class submarines had a crew of 2 officers and 11 ratings.[1]For surface running, A13 was powered by a single vertical, six-cylinder {{convert|500|bhp|lk=in|0|adj=on}} Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine that drove one propeller shaft. When submerged the propeller was driven by a {{convert|150|hp|0|adj=on}} electric motor. They could reach {{convert|11|kn|lk=in}} on the surface and {{convert|6|kn}} underwater.[1] The heavy oil engine was {{convert|3|LT|t|0}} heavier than the petrol engines used by the other boats in the class and an equal amount of fuel had to be removed, which reduced their range despite the heavy oil engine's more economical consumption. On the surface, the boat had a range of about {{convert|400|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|10|kn}};[2] submerged the boat had a range of {{convert|30|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|5|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 doing so that they had to compensate for their weight by an equivalent weight of fuel.[4] Construction and careerA13 was ordered as part of the 1903–04 Naval Programme from at Vickers.[5] She was laid down at the shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness in 1903, launched on 8 February 1905 and completed on 8 May 1905.[3] The boat was broken up in 1920. Notes1. ^1 Gardiner & Gray, p. 86
2. ^Harrison, Chapters 3 and 25
3. ^1 Akermann, p. 120
4. ^Harrison, Chapter 27
5. ^Harrison, Chapter 3
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- MaritimeQuest HMS A-13 Pages
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