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Name: W 1
Type: Submarine
Keel: 08/09/1913
Launched: 19/11/1914
Completed: 06/01/1915
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Elswick
Yard Number: 863
Dimensions: 499disp subm, 331disp surf, 171.9 x 15.3ft
Engines: 2 x oil engines, 8cyl, 2 x electric motors, 740hp
Engines by: Lambert-Schneider
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 8.0knots subm, 13.0knots surf
Construction: Steel
Armament: 1 x 3ins gun, 6 x 18ins torpedoes
History:
06/01/1915 British Royal Navy
23/08/1916 Transferred to the Italian Navy
14/09/1919 Broken up
Comments: The Class was known as the Armstrong-Laubeuf type, having
been built in the UK for the Italian Navy