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Name: H 42
Type: Submarine
Keel: 21/09/1917
Launched: 21/10/1918
Completed: 18/05/1919
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 941
Dimensions: 440disp surf, 500disp subm, 164.6 x 15.75 x 11.30ft
Engines: 2 x Oil engines, 480hp; 2 x Elecric motors 320hp
Engines by: Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 13.0knots surf, 11.0knots subm
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 21.0ins bow torpedo tubes
History:
18/05/1919 British Royal Navy
23/03/1922 Sank
Comments: Member of the Admiralty H Class of submarines
23/03/1922: Sank after a collision with HMS VERSATILE
off Europa Point, Gibraltar, with the loss of all of her 26 crew


Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum