HMS C31 (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS C31 was a C-class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow for the Royal Navy. She was laid down on 7 January 1909 and was commissioned on 19 November 1909. C31 was sunk by mines off the Belgian coast on 4 January 1915 whilst patrolling off Zeebrugge. There were no survivors. The British C class submarines were the last class of petrol engined submarines of the Royal Navy and marked the end of the development of the Holland-class in the Royal Navy. Thirty eight were constructed between 1905 and 1910 and they served through World War I.