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Class overview | |
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Name | A-class |
Builders | Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness |
Operators | Royal Navy |
Preceded by | Holland class |
Succeeded by | B-class |
Completed | 13 |
General characteristics (A8–A13)[1] | |
Type | Submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 105 ft 0+1⁄2 in (32.02 m) |
Beam | 12 ft 8+3⁄4 in (3.88 m) |
Draught | 10 ft 8 in (3.25 m) surfaced |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Complement | 11 |
Armament | 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes (bow, four torpedoes) |
The A-class was the Royal Navy's first class of British-designed submarines. Thirteen were built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness between 1902 and 1905 as an improvement on the US Plunger class.