The discovery of a 112-year-old British submarine at the bottom of the English Channel

An international team of historians and archaeologists discovered at the bottom of the English Channel is an ancient submarine that is 112 years old.

It was identified as a British submarine from Project D1. It was previously believed to be a German that drowned near the British province of Devon during the First World War.
While the British newspaper “The Independent” reported that divers and history scholars have compared underwater photographs to the scheme of the old British submarine, where the distribution of torpedo devices, the rudder and cockpit and 16 other characteristics were compared, so the scientists came to the conclusion that the submarine was the British D1 submarine during the First World War. .

The British government granted the submarine the legal status of a historical monument. And that’s after Wessex Archeology provided an official evaluation of the submarine.

It is noteworthy that the D1 has great historical significance, as it was the first submarine that formed the basis of the majority of British submarines in the submarine fleet during the First World War.

The historian of the Royal British Navy, Mar Harris, said that the diesel electric submarine descended at sea on May 16, 1908, and entered the British Navy formation in September 2009.

Its length was 49.7 meters, its height was 6.2 meters, its dive was 3.2 meters, its crew was 25 people, its speed was 14 knots (26 km / h) under water and 10 knots (17 km / h) on the surface of the sea, its working range was 2,500 nautical miles.

It could have fired two torpedo devices from the front and rear.

The submarine patrolled the English Channel, and was then used as a training target in the maneuvers of the British Navy, where it was sunk on October 23, 1918.

Source: Rossiyskaya Gazeta