Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

British M-class submarine

Index British M-class submarine

The British Royal Navy M-class submarines were a small class of diesel-electric submarines built during World War I. The unique feature of the class design was a 12-inch (305 mm) gun mounted in a turret forward of the conning tower. [1]

35 relations: Armstrong Whitworth, Armstrong Whitworth 12 inch /40 naval gun, BBC Television, British K-class submarine, Camouflage, Casing (submarine), Chesil Beach, Conning tower, Cruiser submarine, Devon, Diesel engine, English Channel, Formidable-class battleship, Grampus-class submarine, HMS M1, HMS M2, HMS M3, HMS M4, Innes McCartney, Max Horton, Minelayer, Monitor (warship), Naval gunfire support, Parnall Peto, Periscope, Popular Mechanics, Richard Larn, Royal Navy, Scuba diving, Submarine, Torpedo, Torpedo tube, Vickers, Washington Naval Conference, World War I.

Armstrong Whitworth

Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Armstrong Whitworth · See more »

Armstrong Whitworth 12 inch /40 naval gun

The Armstrong Whitworth 12 inch naval gun of 40 calibres length was designed by, and manufactured mainly by, Armstrong's ordnance branch, Elswick Ordnance Company.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Armstrong Whitworth 12 inch /40 naval gun · See more »

BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

New!!: British M-class submarine and BBC Television · See more »

British K-class submarine

The K-class submarines were a class of steam-propelled submarines of the Royal Navy designed in 1913.

New!!: British M-class submarine and British K-class submarine · See more »

Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).

New!!: British M-class submarine and Camouflage · See more »

Casing (submarine)

The casing of a submarine is a light metal structure, usually incorporating a deck, built over the upper surface of the vessel's pressure hull.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Casing (submarine) · See more »

Chesil Beach

Chesil Beach, sometimes called Chesil Bank, in Dorset, southern England is one of three major shingle structures in Britain.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Chesil Beach · See more »

Conning tower

A conning tower is a raised platform on a ship or submarine, often armored, from which an officer can conn the vessel, i.e., give directions to the helmsman.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Conning tower · See more »

Cruiser submarine

A cruiser submarine is a very large submarine designed to remain at sea for extended periods in areas distant from base facilities.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Cruiser submarine · See more »

Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Devon · See more »

Diesel engine

The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).

New!!: British M-class submarine and Diesel engine · See more »

English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

New!!: British M-class submarine and English Channel · See more »

Formidable-class battleship

The Royal Navy's Formidable-class battleships were an eight-ship class of pre-dreadnoughts designed by Sir William White and built in the late 1890s. The class is often further divided into a separate London class, and the London class sometimes is divided further into a separate Queen class.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Formidable-class battleship · See more »

Grampus-class submarine

The Grampus-class submarines were a group of minelaying submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Grampus-class submarine · See more »

HMS M1

HMS M1 was a submarine of the British Royal Navy, one of four vessels of her class ordered towards the end of the First World War.

New!!: British M-class submarine and HMS M1 · See more »

HMS M2

HMS M2 was a Royal Navy submarine monitor completed in 1919, converted in 1927 into a submarine aircraft carrier.

New!!: British M-class submarine and HMS M2 · See more »

HMS M3

HMS M3, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne was an M class submarine of the Royal Navy.

New!!: British M-class submarine and HMS M3 · See more »

HMS M4

HMS M4 was an M-class submarine of the Royal Navy built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, and laid down in 1917.

New!!: British M-class submarine and HMS M4 · See more »

Innes McCartney

Dr.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Innes McCartney · See more »

Max Horton

Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton, & Two Bars, SGM (29 November 1883 – 30 July 1951) was a British submariner during the First World War and commander-in-chief of the Western Approaches in the later half of the Second World War, responsible for British participation in the Battle of the Atlantic.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Max Horton · See more »

Minelayer

Minelaying is the act of deploying explosive mines.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Minelayer · See more »

Monitor (warship)

A monitor was a relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Monitor (warship) · See more »

Naval gunfire support

Naval gunfire support (NGFS) (also known as shore bombardment) is the use of naval artillery to provide fire support for amphibious assault and other troops operating within their range.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Naval gunfire support · See more »

Parnall Peto

The Parnall Peto was a small seaplane designed to Air Ministry specification 16/24 in the early 1920s for use as a submarine-carried reconnaissance aircraft.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Parnall Peto · See more »

Periscope

A periscope is an instrument for observation over, around or through an object, obstacle or condition that prevents direct line-of-sight observation from an observer's current position.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Periscope · See more »

Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics is a classic magazine of popular science and technology.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Popular Mechanics · See more »

Richard Larn

Richard James Vincent Larn, OBE (born 1931) is a retired Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Navy, a businessman and maritime history writer who is widely regarded as one of Britain's leading historic shipwreck experts.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Richard Larn · See more »

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Royal Navy · See more »

Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Scuba diving · See more »

Submarine

A submarine (or simply sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Submarine · See more »

Torpedo

A modern torpedo is a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Torpedo · See more »

Torpedo tube

A torpedo tube is a cylinder shaped device for launching torpedoes.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Torpedo tube · See more »

Vickers

Vickers was a famous name in British engineering that existed through many companies from 1828 until 1999.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Vickers · See more »

Washington Naval Conference

The Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference, was a military conference called by U.S. President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington, D.C., from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922.

New!!: British M-class submarine and Washington Naval Conference · See more »

World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

New!!: British M-class submarine and World War I · See more »

Redirects here:

British M class submarine, British m class submarine, Submarine monitor.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_M-class_submarine

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »