HMS C16

HMS C16
History
Name	HMS E36
Builder	Vickers, Barrow
Laid down	14 December 1906
Commissioned	5 June 1908
Fate	Sunk 14 July 1909, salved and recommissioned Sunk 16 April 1917
General characteristics
Displacement	Surfaced: Submerged:

HMS C16 was a British C class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 14 December 1906 and was commissioned on 5 June 1908.

Sinking

HMS C16 was sunk in a collision with HMS C17 south of Cromer, Norfolk on 14 July 1909. There was only one survivor. She was salved and recommissioned.

C16 was again sunk after being rammed at periscope depth by the British destroyer HMS Melampus off Harwich on 16 April 1917. The boat bottomed at 60 ft. The first Lieutenant, Lieut S Anderson was fired through a torpedo tube to try to escape. He unfortunately drowned. So the skipper tried to flood the boat in an effort to escape through the fore hatch. But the fender jammed the hatch so the crew became trapped. The escape attempts were recorded by the commanding officer, Lieut H Boase, and was corked in a bottle found lying near him when the hull was salvaged. All the crew of HMS C16 died. HMS C16 was salved and recommissioned.

HMS C16 was finally sold on the 12 August 1922.

External links

• HMS C16 pages at MaritimeQuest
• HMS C16 Roll of Honour

References

• Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson.