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After being attacked by an Austrian flying boat on 11 December, 1915, Lieutenant Gravener saw the plane set upon the waves with an engine problem.  B 11's machine gun jammed and the enemy plane was able to take off again before a ramming attempt could be made.{{MediterraneanSubs|p. 98}}
  
 
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Revision as of 10:05, 2 May 2016

H.M.S. B 11 (1906)
Pendant Number: I.00 (1914)
B.11 (mid 1915)[1]
Builder: Vickers[2]
Launched: 21 Feb, 1906[3]
Sold: 1919[4]
H.M.S. B 11 was one of eleven "B" class coastal submarines completed for the Royal Navy.

While operating in the Mediterranean Fleet's Submarine Flotilla,[5] B 11 sank the Turkish ironclad Mesûdiye in the Dardanelles on 13 December, 1914.[6]

Service

After being attacked by an Austrian flying boat on 11 December, 1915, Lieutenant Gravener saw the plane set upon the waves with an engine problem. B 11's machine gun jammed and the enemy plane was able to take off again before a ramming attempt could be made.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 82.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 87.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 87.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 87.
  5. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 15.
  6. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 21. p. 5.
  7. Wilson & Kemp. Mediterranean Submarines. p. 98.
  8. The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 318.
  9. The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 318.
  10. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 307.
  11. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 310.
  12. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 21. p. 5.
  13. The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 392i.

Bibliography


"B" Class Submarine
B 1 B 2 B 3 B 4 B 5
  B 6 B 7 B 8  
  B 9 B 10 B 11  
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