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5cm gun ▼ HMS HOLLAND NO. 1 T
on mount
Commissioned 1901 Origin UK
Torpedo Displacement 113 tons
launch tube (122 tons submerged)
Length 64ft (19.5m) ORPEDO BO
Top speed 7.5 knots
Britain’s Royal Navy came late to
submarines, the first such boats—built to
an American design by Vickers at Barrow-
Access in-Furness—being delivered 13 years after A
hatch France commissioned its first, the Gymnôte,
▲ SMS S101 Although officially classed as destroyers, these and four years behind the US Navy. TS,
Commissioned 1901 Origin Germany Schichau-built vessels were, in effect, enlarged
torpedo boats, their gun armament being
Displacement 388 tons extremely light. Those still in use in
Length 207ft (63m) September 1914 were reclassified as such,
Top speed 26.5 knots and some were rearmed with 8.8cm guns. DESTR

Six boilers driving three Parsons turbines O
exhausted through three funnels
Horizontal YERS,
control planes
Launch carried Searchlight platform
on davits 3.2in gun AND SUBMARINES

▲ MOGAMI Officially classified as a “despatch vessel,” ▼ HMS MASTIFF By 1914, destroyers had increased
Commissioned 1908 Origin Japan and in fact a miniature protected cruiser, Commissioned 1914 Origin UK considerably in both size and speed.
Mogami was the first turbine-engined Several of the M-class ships were
Displacement 1,350 tons Japanese warship. Its original function was Displacement 1,100 tons built experimentally, and Mastiff was
Length 316ft (96.3m) rendered obsolete even before completion Length 274ft (83.6m) said to be the fastest warship afloat
Top speed 23 knots by the introduction of wireless telegraphy. Top speed 35 knots following her sea trials.

Radio antenna

4in quick-firing gun
Trainable torpedo tube
Torpedo
launch tubes

Trainable torpedo
launch tube