HMS A2
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| Career |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | April 15 1903 |
| Commissioned: | |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Scrapped January 1920 |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 190 tons surfaced 207 tons submerged |
| Length: | 105.25 feet (32 m) |
| Beam: | 12.75 feet (3.9 m) |
| Draught: | |
| Propulsion: | 16 cylinder Wolseley 450 hp (336 kW) gasoline engine, 150 horsepower (112 kW) electric motor |
| Speed: | maximum 10.5 knots (19 km/h) surfaced maximum 7 knots (13 km/h) dived |
| Range: | 360 nautical miles (667 km) at 10.5 knots (19 km/h) surfaced 20 nautical miles (37 km) submerged at 5 knots (9 km/h) |
| Complement: | 11 (2 officers and 9 ratings) |
| Armament: | Two 18 inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes plus two reloads |
HMS A2 was an early Royal Navy submarine.
She was a member of the first British A-class of submarines, although slightly bigger than the lead ship, HMS A1. Like all boats in her class, she was built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched on April 15 1903. She flooded after running aground in Bomb Ketch Lake,Portsmouth in January 1920 and was sold for scrap.
| British A-class submarine |
| A1 | A2 | A3 | A4 | A5 | A6 | A7 | A8 | A9 | A10 | A11 | A12 | A13 |
| List of submarines of the Royal Navy |
| List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy |
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