HMS A1 was the Royal Navy 's first British-designed submarine, and their first to suffer fatal casualties. She was the lead ship of the first British A-class submarines and the only one to have a single bow torpedo tube.

In 2013 the Nautical Archaeology Society with funding from English Heritage (now Historic England) established a diver visitor trail on the protected wreck of the HMS m/A1 submarine that sunk in in the eastern Solent in 1911. Discover more here...

Jan 24, 2018 · HM Submarine A1. A1 was the first British-designed and built submarine. Although the Solent area wreck site of A1 has been known to a lot of divers and the marks published in many a book, the site has been off limits since its designation as a protected wreck in 1998.

HMS A1 was the Royal Navy's first British-designed submarine, and their first to suffer fatal casualties. She was the lead ship of the first British A-class submarines (a second, much different A-class appeared towards the end of the Second World War), and the …

HMS A-1 created unwanted history, being the first British submarine to be sunk together with the first eleven casualties of the submarine service.

HMS A1 was the Royal Navy's first British-designed submarine, and their first to suffer fatal casualties.

HMS A1 (Lt L O Mansergh) was lost on 18 March 1904 with all hands, 5 miles off the Nab light vessel in the Solent. A1 had been running in for a simulated attack along with some Holland-class submarines (including HOLLAND 2 and HOLLAND 3) on the cruiser HMS JUNO which was returning to Portsmouth after participating in manoeuvres with the Channel ...

HMS A1 Submarine. Type: A Class Submarine; Built: Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness; Launched: 9 July 1902; Depth of Wreck: 10 -15 m; She was the lead ship of the first British A-class submarines (a second, much different A-class appeared towards the end of the Second World War), and the only one to have a single bow torpedo tube.

Jun 5, 2008 · HMS A1 was the first submarine designed and built in Britain, in 1903. After colliding with the ss Berwick Castle during training a year later, the vessel sank with the loss of all onboard.

1902 Vickers, Sons and Maxim built the A1, the first British-designed and built internal-combustion-engined submarine used by the Royal Navy. The 'A1' sank twice in her career; the first time (in which all of her crew were killed) was in 1904 after a collision with the SS Berwick Castle during exercises.