HMS K3
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| Career |
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|---|---|
| Ordered: | August 1915 |
| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | 20 May 1916 at Vickers, Barrow in Furness |
| Commissioned: | |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping 26 October 1921 |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1980 tons surfaced/2566 tons dived |
| Length: | 339 ft (103 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft 6 in (8.1 m) |
| Draught: | 20 ft 11 in (6.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | Twin 10 500 shp (7.8 MW) oil-fired Yarrow boilers each powering a Brown-Curtis or Parsons geared steam turbines, Twin 3 blade 7 ft 6 in (2.3 m) screws 4 x 1440 hp (1070 kW) electric motors. 1 x 800 hp (600 kW) Vickers diesel generator for charging batteries on the surface. |
| Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h) surfaced, 8 knots (15 km/h) dived |
| Range: | Surface: 800 nautical miles (1500 km) at maximum speed, 12500 miles at 10 knots (19 km/h) Dived: 8 nautical miles at 8 knots, 40 miles at 4 knots |
| Complement: | 59 (6 officers and 53 ratings) |
| Armament: | 4 x 18 in (457 m) beam torpedo tubes, 4 x 18 in (457 m) bow tubes, plus 8 spare torpedoes, 2 x 4 in (102 mm) guns, 1 x 3 in (76 mm) gun. Twin 18 in (457 mm) deck tubes originally fitted but later removed. |
HMS K3 was the lead boat of the First World War steam-propelled K class submarines of the British Royal Navy.
| British K-class submarine |
| K1 | K2 | K3 | K4 | K5 | K6 | K7 | K8 | K9 | K10 | K11 | K12 | K13 | K14 | K15 | K16 | K26 |
| List of submarines of the Royal Navy |
| List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy |
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