HMS R8

HMS R8
R-class submarine
Career
Name:	HMS R8
Builder:	Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down:	1 November 1917
Launched:	28 June 1918
Commissioned:	26 July 1918
Fate:	Sold, 21 February 1923
General characteristics
Class & type:	R class submarine
Displacement:	420 long tons (427 t) surfaced 500 long tons (508 t) submerged
Length:	163 ft (50 m)
Beam:	16 ft (4.9 m)
Draught:	11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)
Propulsion:	8-cylinder diesel engine, 480 hp (360 kW) 2 × electric motors, 1,200 hp (890 kW) total Single electric motor for low speed running One shaft
Speed:	9.5 knots (17.6 km/h) surfaced 14 knots (26 km/h) submerged
Endurance:	Submerged: 1 hour at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement:	2 officers and 20 ratings
Sensors and processing systems:	Bow hydrophone array
Armament:	• 6 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes (forward) • 12 × Mark VIII 18 inch torpedoes

HMS R8 was a British R class submarine built by Vickers Limited at Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 1 November 1917 and launched on 28 June 1918. R8 was commissioned on 26 July 1918. She came too late to see any combat in World War I, like most of the other R class submarines. In the Navy List for November 1918 she was based at Donegal.

R8 was sold on 21 February 1923 to E. Suren.

References

• Hutchinson, Robert, Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, from 1776 to the Present Day
• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.