HMS Holland 3

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Holland 3
Holland 3 at Portsmouth in September 1902, with HMS Victory in the background
Career Royal Navy Ensign
Name: Holland 3
Builder: Vickers Maxim shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 4 February 1901
Launched: 9 May 1902
Commissioned: 1 August 1902
Fate: sank in trials in 1911
General characteristics
Type: Submarine
Displacement: 105 long tons (107 t) submerged
Length: 63 ft 10 in (19.46 m)[1]
Beam: 11 ft 9 in (3.58 m)[1]
Propulsion: Petrol engine, 160 hp (119 kW)
Electric motor, 70 hp (52 kW)
Speed: 7 knots (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) submerged
Range: 20 nmi (37 km) at 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) submerged
Test depth: 100 ft (30 m)
Complement: 8 (Lieutenant, Sub-Lieutenant, Coxswain, Torpedo Instructor, Chief Engineering Artificer, Leading Stoker, Stoker, Leading Seaman and Able Seaman)
Armament: • 1 × 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tube
• up to 3 torpedoes

Holland 3 was a Royal Navy submarine launched on 9 May 1902. The submarine was designed by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness and was first built on 4 February 1901. The submarine was commissioned on 1 August 1902. Holland 3 sank in trials in 1911 and was then sold on 7 October 1913.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Submarines War Beneath the Waves From 1776 to the present day. HarperCollinsPublishers. pp. 25–27. ISBN 0007653336. 

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