HMS B11 was the last of 11 B-class submarines built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Completed in 1906, it is best known for carrying out a successful attack on the …

Jun 3, 2019 · Airplanes may have upstaged everything else in WWI, but valient battles also occurred under the sea. This is the story of the submarine HMS B11.

On 13 December 1914, British submarine B11, commanded by Lieutenant Norman Holbrook was tasked with entering the Dardanelles. The B11 had been selected for the mission (despite …

He was in command of the submarine HMS B11, an old and obsolete craft built in 1905. Notwithstanding the difficulties of a treacherous current in the Dardanelles, he dived under five …

Dec 13, 2014 · The first submariner to be awarded the Victoria Cross was Lieutenant Norman Holbrook, captain of HMS B11. He received Britain's highest award for gallantry after his boat …

HM Submarine B11 was a British vessel commanded by British Lieutenant Norman Holbrook of the Royal Navy, with a crew of 35 submariners. B11 was the first to prove that a submarine …

Oct 29, 2014 · Three months later, the Royal Navy’s last B-class boat HMS B11 departed from the island of Tenedos on a mission to sink the Ottoman battleship Mesûdiye. To get there, it …

Dec 12, 2014 · Smaller river patrol craft had been lost in the Mesopotamian campaign, and some Russian vessels in Admiral Souchon's Black Sea Raid, but on this day the British submarine …

The main picture shows the British Royal Navy submarine B11 with its captain and five crew on deck. The inset image is of the Turkish battle-ship MESSUDIYEH. The caption reads 'The …

Nov 11, 2015 · Allied submarines operated in the Dardanelles even before the attack on its defences by surface ships in February 1915 and the amphibious landing on 25 April. HMS B11 …