HMS Grampus was a of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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, originally named HMS Nautilus when she was commissioned

Ship commissioning

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 on 30 March 1910 from Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company. She was renamed Grampus on 16 December 1913, her former name being reallocated to , the first Royal Navy submarine

Submarine

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 to be given one.

Service history

During World War I

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, Grampus participated in the Dardanelles Campaign against the Ottoman Empire

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.

On 17 April 1915, in an attempt to break through the Dardanelles

Dardanelles

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, the submarine ran aground under Kephaz Point. She was fired on and disabled, her captain, Lieutenant Commander T.S. Brodie and several of her crew were killed; the remainder taken prisoner. To prevent her capture, the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 tried over the next two days to destroy the submarine. Grampus was involved in one of the many failed attempts; she was simply unable to locate the E15.

On 6 August, HMS Grampus landed 11th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment

The Manchester Regiment

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 of the 11th (Northern) Division

British 11th (Northern) Division

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 inside Suvla Bay, but on the wrong part of the beach. The troops were ill-supplied and ran critically short of drinking water

Drinking water

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 in the actions that followed; on 8 August, HMS Grampus cut one of its own water tanks loose and floated it ashore, which allowed the men who recovered it about a pint

Pint

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(0.5 litre) each.

Grampus was sold for scrapping in September 1920.