British S class submarine
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Two classes
of submarine
of the Royal Navy
are known as the S class:
Ship class
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of submarine
Submarine
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of the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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are known as the S class:
- The S classBritish S class submarine (1914)The British S class submarine of 1914 were built by Scotts, Greenock just before World War I. The S class was based on an Italian design of the Laurenti boats.The design had ten internal bulkheads.Three vessels were constructed...
of three submarines launched in 1914–1915 and transferred to the Regia MarinaRegia MarinaThe Regia Marina dates from the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 after Italian unification...
in 1915. - The S classBritish S class submarine (1931)The S-class submarines of the Royal Navy were originally designed and built during the modernisation of the submarine force in the early 1930s to meet the need for smaller boats to patrol the restricted waters of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea replacing the British H class submarines...
of sixty-two submarines launched in the 1930s and 1940s.