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...

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. 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 …

While there was considerable variation amongst the boats of the class, they were around 100 feet (30 m) long and displaced around 200 tons when submerged. The first, A1 (ordered as Holland No. 6), was launched in July 1902, the last, A13, in April 1905.

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 (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 ...

Reflecting the decision to identify the vessel type as A Class, Holland 6 was renamed A-1, becoming the first submarine for the Royal Navy. A1 was completed in 1902 and was destined to have a brief life. She carried aboard during that life, King Edward VII and HRH the Prince of …

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.