HMS A2

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HMS A2 was an Template:Sclass2 submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

Design and description

A2 was a member of the first British class of submarines, although slightly larger, faster and more heavily armed than the lead ship, Template:HMS. The submarine had a length of Template:Convert overall, a beam of Template:Convert and a mean draft of Template:Convert. They displaced Template:Convert on the surface and Template:Convert submerged. The A-class submarines had a crew of 2 officers and 9 ratings.<ref name=gg9>Gardiner & Gray, p. 86</ref>

For surface running, the boats were powered by a single 16-cylinder Template:Convert Wolseley petrol engine that drove one propeller shaft. When submerged the propeller was driven by a Template:Convert electric motor. They could reach Template:Convert on the surface and Template:Convert underwater. On the surface, A2 had a range of Template:Convert at Template:Convert;<ref name=gg9/> submerged the boat had a range of Template:Convert at Template:Convert.<ref>Akermann, p. 120</ref>

The boats were armed with two 18-inch (45 cm) torpedo tubes in the bow. They could carry a pair of reload torpedoes, but generally did not as in doing so they had to compensate for their weight by an equivalent weight of fuel.<ref>Harrison, Chapter 27</ref>

Construction and career

Like all boats in her class, she was built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness.<ref name=gg9/> Construction started in 1902 and the submarine was launched on 15 April 1903 and completed on 26 March 1904.<ref>Harrison, Appendix 1</ref> During World War I, A2 served on harbour service at Portsmouth.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She flooded after running aground in Bomb Ketch Lake in Portsmouth Harbour in January 1920 and was sold for scrap to H. G. Pound of Portsmouth on 22 October 1925.

References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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