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bow. They carried six reload torpedoes for a grand total of a dozen torpedoes. They were equipped with an array of five hydrophones in the bow to allow them to locate and engage targets while submerged.
Construction and career.
HMS "R11" was laid down on 1 December 1917 by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, launched on 16 March 1918 and commissioned on 8 August 1919. She came too late to see any combat in World War I, like most of the other R class submarines. "R11" was
HMS R11
HMS "R11" was one of 10 R-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. The boat was not completed before the end of the war and was sold for scrap in 1923.
Design and description.
The R-class submarine was designed to meet an Admiralty requirement for a specialised hunter-killer submarine with an emphasis on submerged performance. The boats had a length of overall, a beam of and a mean draft of . They displaced on the surface and