Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Submarine

HMS H28

H-class submarine

HMS H28
Photographer not identified. — This photograph SP 2556 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate Photograph of British submarine H 28 . IWM caption : "HMSM H 28. Underway coastal waters"

Service

  1. Royal Navy as H2829 June 1918 — 18 August 19441,813 days of the war
H-class submarine Particulars
Name
HMS H28
Builder
Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down
18 March 1917
Launched
12 March 1918
Commissioned
29 June 1918
Fate
Scrapped, 18 August 1944 (1944)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced
423 long tons (430 t)
Displacement, submerged
510 long tons (518 t)
Length
52.12 m (171 ft)
Beam
4.57 m (15 ft)
Speed
11.5 knots (21.3 km/h, 13.2 mph)
Range
2,985 nmi (5,528 km)
Complement
22

HMS H28 was a H-class submarine, operated by the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness on 18 March 1917. Launched on 12 March 1918, she entered service on 29 June 1918.

23 ships of the class were built. The class followed the E and F-class destroyer and was succeeded by the I-class destroyer.

The boat displaced 423 long tons surfaced and 510 long tons submerged. She measured 52.1 m (171 ft) long with a beam of 4.6 m (15 ft). Her designed speed was 11.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 22.

Her main battery was four 533 mm (21 in) guns.

She was in commission for 1,813 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap on 18 August 1944.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 1 × 480 hp diesel engine
  • 2 × 620 hp electric motors
Armament
  • 4 × 21 in bow torpedo tubes
  • 8 × 21-inch torpedoes

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS H28 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Photographer not identified. — This photograph SP 2556 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons