HMS K4
{{short description|British K class submarine built by Vickers}}
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HMS K4 was a British K-class submarine built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 28 June 1915 and commissioned on 1 January 1917, one year before the end of World War I.
Accidents
=January 1917=
In January 1917 HMS K4 ran aground on Walney Island. The British submarine giant was stranded on its beach but was undamaged. She was refloated the next day.{{sfn|Mansergh|2015|p=}} {{sfn|New-York Tribune, 23 February,|1920|p=2}}
= Collision K1 =
In November 1917, K4 collided with sister ship {{HMS|K1||2}} during an accident off the Danish coast.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.klaarvooronderwater.nl/kvo/Kvo-037.pdf|last=van Toor|first=C. |date=December 1991 |title=May Island (2)|magazine=Klaar Voor Onderwater |issue=37|location=Den Helder|publisher=Onderzeedienst Reünistenvereniging |pages=7-12|language=Dutch}} The light cruiser {{HMS|Blonde|1910|2}} operating with K1 had to make a sharp turn to avoid three units from the 4th Cruiser Squadron. And in the confusion, K4 collided with K1. The crew of K1 were rescued and K1 sunk by the Blonde. The K4 was under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Alfred Fenner.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/3039720/athelstan-alfred-lennox-fenner/|title = Lieut-Commander Athelstan Alfred Lennox Fenner | War Casualty Details}} There is a blue plaque on the wall of his home in the town of Cromer in Norfolk.
Loss
K4 was lost on 31 January 1918 during the night time fleet exercises later known as the Battle of May Island (Operation E.C.1) when she was attached to the 13th Submarine Flotilla. While attempting to avoid a collision with {{HMS|K3||2}}, she became the victim of collisions with {{HMS|K6||2}} and {{HMS|K7||2}}. She was lost with all hands. The wreck is designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.
{{Cite web
|url= http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20080950_en_1
|title=The Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 (Designation of Vessels and Controlled Sites) Order 2008 No. 950
|publisher=The National Archives
|access-date=11 July 2010
}}
==Bibliography==
Notes
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References
- {{cite book|last=Mansergh|first=Ruth | title = Barrow-in-Furness in the Great War|year=2015| publisher = Pen and Sword| isbn=9781473859760}} - Total pages: 160
- {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|New-York Tribune, 23 February,|1920}}|date= 2020|title= British Submarine Giant|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1919-02-23/ed-1/?sp=2&r=0.001,0.423,0.408,0.193,0|newspaper=New-York Tribune|publisher=Ogden Mills Reid|location= New York, NY|issn=1941-0646|oclc=9405688|pages=11|access-date= 23 February 2020 }}
Publications
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book |last=Hutchinson |first=Robert |title=Janes Submarines: War Beneath The Waves, from 1776 to the Present Day |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2005 |isbn=0060819006 }}
External links
- [http://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/what-we-have/memorial-chapel/submarine-losses?start=8 'Submarine losses 1904 to present day' - Royal Navy Submarine Museum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925134204/http://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/what-we-have/memorial-chapel/submarine-losses?start=8 |date=25 September 2015 }}
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Category:Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness
Category:British K-class submarines
Category:Protected wrecks of the United Kingdom
Category:World War I shipwrecks in the North Sea
Category:British submarine accidents
Category:Maritime incidents in 1917
Category:Maritime incidents in 1918
Category:Submarines sunk in collisions
Category:Royal Navy ship names
Category:Warships lost with all hands
Category:Submarines sunk by submarines
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