&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Adamant,_submarine_depot_ship_-_IWM_Q_75565.jpg) Adamant
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Adamant |
| Ordered | 1910 |
| Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Launched | 12 July 1911 |
| Commissioned | 27 April 1912 |
| Decommissioned | 7 July 1932 |
| Honours and awards | Dardanelles 1915 |
| Fate | Sold 21 September 1932 for breaking by Rees, Llanelli |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Submarine depot ship |
| Displacement | 935 long tons (950 t) (normal load) |
| Length | 212 ft (65 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft 6 in (9.91 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft 4 in (3.76 m) (deep load) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 1 x triple-expansion steam engine
1 x shaft |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Range | 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | one 35 ft (11 m) motor boat
one 30 ft (9.1 m) cutter one 27 ft (8.2 m) whaler two 16 ft (4.9 m) skiffs |
| Complement | 63 |
| Armament | None as completed |
| Notes | 180 long tons (180 t) of coal at deep load |
HMS Adamant was a submarine depot ship of the Royal Navy. She was purpose built to support three of the new D-class submarines under the 1910/11 Naval Programme, allowing a small part of a flotilla to be deployed away from the main base.[1]
- ^ Keyes, Roger (1934). The Naval Memoirs of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes - The Narrow Seas to the Dardanelles 1910-1915. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd. p. 44.