HMS K7
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| History | |
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| Name | HMS K7 |
| Builder | HM Dockyard Devonport |
| Laid down | 8 November 1915 |
| Launched | 31 May 1916 |
| Commissioned | July 1917 |
| Fate | Sold, 9 September 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | K-class submarine |
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| Length | 339 ft (103 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
| Draught | 20 ft 11 in (6.38 m) |
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| Complement | 59 (6 officers and 53 ratings) |
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HMS K7 was a K class submarine built by HM Dockyard, Devonport. She was laid down on 8 November 1915 and commissioned in July 1917.
K7 was the only one of the disastrous K class to engage with an enemy; on 16 June 1917 she fired a salvo of torpedoes at the U-boat U-95 and scored a direct hit. However, the torpedo failed to explode with what has been described as typical "K" luck; K-7 escaped retaliation by steaming away at speed.[1]
K7 was involved in an accident with the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron. She was also involved in the catastrophic series of accidents during a night exercise that came to be known sarcastically as the Battle of May Island; K7 was damaged by running over the sinking K4. K7 was sold on 9 September 1921 at Sunderland.
