British Submarine Dive - The 'B-2'

[Andy the Coastie]

Well , what can i really say about today ........

Nick Bown ( Fathoms Down ) did his first sea dive off the Taurus after just passing his YBOD course.......

viz was a good 8 mts ,,,,,,, and the divers thought it was a excellent dive.

Come on Chris P,,, what did you think ?

[ChrisP]

Originally Posted by Andy the Commie

Come on Chris P,,, what did you think ?

Just back from a curry with Svenja and my daughter

Today's dive was pretty good though but I can not shout about it too much as poor Svenja was working while I was playing

The B2 is a British sub, I don't have many details about her but I am going to find out. Anyway she is a typical small thin British sub and the mid section is fairly covered in sand.
The conning tower points up at 60 deg with the hatch open.
My only regret is that with the good viz I left my Fisheye lens topside
All in all an excellent dive with tea and donoughts afterwards. Again don't tell Svenja as I am on a carrot diet
See you next Thursday for the New Comet

[Andy the Coastie]

Photo taken and supplied by ChrisP

ps,,,, and Chris ,,, it's DONUTS





After Ian's comment about me spillings from lack of GRAMMER skooling, i took the box home to copy

[Kent Tooling]

Another cracking dive on TAURUS this time we was diving the B2 Sub, i have wanted to do this one for a long time, we had about 8m of viz it was better than working this afternoon roll on next Thursday.

Thanks Andy for the tea & donoughts,

John

[Andy the Coastie]

Royal navy Submarine B 2 photographed 1908. sunk after being rammed by SS Amerika, with only one survivor Lt Pulleyne

[Deck Bitch]

Originally Posted by Andy the Commie

Royal navy Submarine B 2 photographed 1908. sunk after being rammed by SS Amerika, with only one survivor Lt Pulleyne

if u look at pic of sub andy is at the back still looks the same love u

[BentDiver]

It was indeed a superb dive. But I'll most gratefull if you will stop going on about next Thursday!

[Ron Young]

Type: ‘B’ Class coastal patrol submarine. Ordered: for 1904 - 1905 programme (B2 - B11).
Keel laid: as Yard No.230 Pendant No: I-22. Builders: Vickers Yard, Barrow-in-Furness for Royal Navy. Launched: on 19 August 1905. Commissioned: on 9 December 1905 (Commanding Officers were not nominated for individual boats, only to a Depot Ship ‘for command of submarine attached’.)

Technical specifications:
Hull: single. Surface displacement: 287-tons. U/Dt: 316-tons. LBD: 43.34m × 3.84m × 3.40m.
Machinery: 1 × horizontal 600hp Vickers 16-cylinder petrol engine. Props: 1-bronze × 3 blade of 1.70m (5ft 7in). S/Sp: 12kts. Op/R: 740-n.miles @ 12-knots, or 1,000-n.miles @ 8.7-kts & 10 days endurance. U/Power: 1 × 225ehp triple armature electric motor operated on 100volts & rated for 1500amps. Sub/R: Designed endurance range & 280rpm: 50-n.m. & 4.5kts, service endurance range & 280rpm: 22-n.miles @ 6.5kts. Batteries: 159-cell lead/acid manufactured by Chloride, max. 143 Volts, max. Amps 500 giving duration at full speed of 3-hours & 45-minutes. Batteries weighed 65.55-tons. Fuel/Cap: 15.5-tons. Armament: 2 × 45.72cm (18in) bow torpedo tube, slightly angled-downwards. Torpedoes: 14 × 45.72cm (18in) two for re-loading.
Diving: max-test pressure depth 30.48m (100ft) & 15.24m (50ft) normal.
Complement: 15 (2 officers & 13 ratings.

Final voyage:
HMS B2, then commanded by Lt. P.B. O’Brien, was one of several submarines sent to Dover to take part in Channel exercises during the overtures to World War One. On 4 October 1912 the tiny submarine was surfaced some four miles north east of Dover, probably charging batteries. It was a calm, clear night and dawn had not yet broken. It appears that lookouts on board the 23,000-ton Hamburg-Amerika liner SS AMERIKA, on passage from Hamburg for Southampton, failed to see the low profile of HMS B2 until it was too late. The bows of SS AMERIKA sliced into B2 just forward of the conning tower and the little submarine sank at once. Lt. Richard Pulleyne, who was on the bridge with a petty officer, was the only survivor. The boat was badly holed near the conning tower and sank immediately Pulleyne was sucked down, but as the boat struck bottom, the impact released him. His oilskins contained air, enabling Pulleyne to tread water for nearly 30-minutes, until rescued.

Cheers Ron

[Andy the Coastie]

Excellent ,,, cheers Ron

[Fathoms Down]

Yes, an excellent dive and special thanks to to John and Simon for keeping a close eye on me as I christened the YBOD. See you all on Thursday