MelissaA
Brenton
Shilpa Karhik
K Stands For KALAMITY!!!
April 28th 2009 13:36
Model of a K-Class Submarine
During World War 1 while the German Navy displayed its supremacy beneath the waves, the British Military decided that it needed its own fleet of similar submarines to contest them.
Therefore a plan to create a range of K-Class steam-powered, submarines was put into action. However the 'K' of K-Class came to stand for something else - Kalamity. The following short list may give you just a hint as to why.
* During November, K1 and K4 collided near Denmark and were sunk.
* K2 caught on fire on her first ever dive.
* K3 sank mysteriously before resurfacing and no-one knows why.
* During a mock battle, K5 dived and was never heard from again.
* K13 sank during sea trials when the engine room flooded.
K15 sank at her mooring in Portsmouth when water flooded in through open hatches as she submerged.
* And in the most 'Kalamitous' scuffle yet, cruiser HMS Fearless collided with K17 which then sank, while K6 on seeing this, attempted to avoid the cruiser by neatly slicing K4 in half, before being rammed by K7 to join the rest of the
Afterwards, K18, K19 and K20 became the new M class submarines, while K21, K23, K24, K25, K27 and K28 were cancelled.
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