Leading Stoker
Service number K/9207
Husband of Minnie Marie Cashman (formerly Howard) of 82 Bonner Road, Victoria Park, London.
K13 sank in Gareloch, Argyll, Scotland, on 29 January 1917 just after noon, having signalled to HMS E50 that she was about to dive. She had 80 people on board - 53 crew, 14 employees of the shipbuilders, five sub-contractors, five Admiralty officials, a River Clyde pilot, and the captain and engineering officer from the still-completing K14.
As she dived, seawater entered her engine room through openings which failed to close properly and flooded it along with the after-torpedo room. As the submarine sank, a 10-ton ballast weight was dropped, but this did not arrest the descent.
The first rescue vessel, Gossamer, arrived at around 22:00 and divers were sent down at daybreak.
Morse code signals were exchanged. Despite the lack of proper escape apparatus, the captain, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, and the captain of K14, Commander Goodhart, attempted an escape to the surface by using the space between the inner and outer hatches of the conning tower as an airlock. Herbert reached the surface alive, but Goodhart's body was later found trapped in the superstructure.
Later that afternoon an airline was connected, to allow the ballast tanks to be blown and with the aid of a hawser, and by midday on 21 January the bows had been brought to just above the surface and supported by a barge on each side. A hole was cut through her pressure hull, and at 22:00 the final survivor was rescued from the submarine, 57 hours after the accident. Thirty two crew died in the accident and 48 were rescued. Thirty one were expected to be still on the submarine, but only 29 were found, and it was concluded that a onshore hotel maid had seen two people escaping from the engine room. One of their bodies was recovered from the Clyde two months later.
At 6 pm. the following day, K13 tore the bollards out of the barges and sank again, flooding through the hole. The submarine was finally salvaged on 15 March, repaired and recommissioned as HMS K22.
The court of inquiry found that four of the 37 inch diameter ventilators had been left open during the dive, and that indicator lights in the control room had actually showed them as open. The engine room hatch was also found to be open.
Service number K/9207
Husband of Minnie Marie Cashman (formerly Howard) of 82 Bonner Road, Victoria Park, London.
K13 sank in Gareloch, Argyll, Scotland, on 29 January 1917 just after noon, having signalled to HMS E50 that she was about to dive. She had 80 people on board - 53 crew, 14 employees of the shipbuilders, five sub-contractors, five Admiralty officials, a River Clyde pilot, and the captain and engineering officer from the still-completing K14.
As she dived, seawater entered her engine room through openings which failed to close properly and flooded it along with the after-torpedo room. As the submarine sank, a 10-ton ballast weight was dropped, but this did not arrest the descent.
The first rescue vessel, Gossamer, arrived at around 22:00 and divers were sent down at daybreak.
Morse code signals were exchanged. Despite the lack of proper escape apparatus, the captain, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, and the captain of K14, Commander Goodhart, attempted an escape to the surface by using the space between the inner and outer hatches of the conning tower as an airlock. Herbert reached the surface alive, but Goodhart's body was later found trapped in the superstructure.
Later that afternoon an airline was connected, to allow the ballast tanks to be blown and with the aid of a hawser, and by midday on 21 January the bows had been brought to just above the surface and supported by a barge on each side. A hole was cut through her pressure hull, and at 22:00 the final survivor was rescued from the submarine, 57 hours after the accident. Thirty two crew died in the accident and 48 were rescued. Thirty one were expected to be still on the submarine, but only 29 were found, and it was concluded that a onshore hotel maid had seen two people escaping from the engine room. One of their bodies was recovered from the Clyde two months later.
At 6 pm. the following day, K13 tore the bollards out of the barges and sank again, flooding through the hole. The submarine was finally salvaged on 15 March, repaired and recommissioned as HMS K22.
The court of inquiry found that four of the 37 inch diameter ventilators had been left open during the dive, and that indicator lights in the control room had actually showed them as open. The engine room hatch was also found to be open.
Leading Stoker
Service number K/9207
Husband of Minnie Marie Cashman (formerly Howard) of 82 Bonner Road, Victoria Park, London.
K13 sank in Gareloch, Argyll, Scotland, on 29 January 1917 just after noon, having signalled to HMS E50 that she was about to dive. She had 80 people on board - 53 crew, 14 employees of the shipbuilders, five sub-contractors, five Admiralty officials, a River Clyde pilot, and the captain and engineering officer from the still-completing K14.
As she dived, seawater entered her engine room through openings which failed to close properly and flooded it along with the after-torpedo room. As the submarine sank, a 10-ton ballast weight was dropped, but this did not arrest the descent.
The first rescue vessel, Gossamer, arrived at around 22:00 and divers were sent down at daybreak.
Morse code signals were exchanged. Despite the lack of proper escape apparatus, the captain, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, and the captain of K14, Commander Goodhart, attempted an escape to the surface by using the space between the inner and outer hatches of the conning tower as an airlock. Herbert reached the surface alive, but Goodhart's body was later found trapped in the superstructure.
Later that afternoon an airline was connected, to allow the ballast tanks to be blown and with the aid of a hawser, and by midday on 21 January the bows had been brought to just above the surface and supported by a barge on each side. A hole was cut through her pressure hull, and at 22:00 the final survivor was rescued from the submarine, 57 hours after the accident. Thirty two crew died in the accident and 48 were rescued. Thirty one were expected to be still on the submarine, but only 29 were found, and it was concluded that a onshore hotel maid had seen two people escaping from the engine room. One of their bodies was recovered from the Clyde two months later.
At 6 pm. the following day, K13 tore the bollards out of the barges and sank again, flooding through the hole. The submarine was finally salvaged on 15 March, repaired and recommissioned as HMS K22.
The court of inquiry found that four of the 37 inch diameter ventilators had been left open during the dive, and that indicator lights in the control room had actually showed them as open. The engine room hatch was also found to be open.
Service number K/9207
Husband of Minnie Marie Cashman (formerly Howard) of 82 Bonner Road, Victoria Park, London.
K13 sank in Gareloch, Argyll, Scotland, on 29 January 1917 just after noon, having signalled to HMS E50 that she was about to dive. She had 80 people on board - 53 crew, 14 employees of the shipbuilders, five sub-contractors, five Admiralty officials, a River Clyde pilot, and the captain and engineering officer from the still-completing K14.
As she dived, seawater entered her engine room through openings which failed to close properly and flooded it along with the after-torpedo room. As the submarine sank, a 10-ton ballast weight was dropped, but this did not arrest the descent.
The first rescue vessel, Gossamer, arrived at around 22:00 and divers were sent down at daybreak.
Morse code signals were exchanged. Despite the lack of proper escape apparatus, the captain, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, and the captain of K14, Commander Goodhart, attempted an escape to the surface by using the space between the inner and outer hatches of the conning tower as an airlock. Herbert reached the surface alive, but Goodhart's body was later found trapped in the superstructure.
Later that afternoon an airline was connected, to allow the ballast tanks to be blown and with the aid of a hawser, and by midday on 21 January the bows had been brought to just above the surface and supported by a barge on each side. A hole was cut through her pressure hull, and at 22:00 the final survivor was rescued from the submarine, 57 hours after the accident. Thirty two crew died in the accident and 48 were rescued. Thirty one were expected to be still on the submarine, but only 29 were found, and it was concluded that a onshore hotel maid had seen two people escaping from the engine room. One of their bodies was recovered from the Clyde two months later.
At 6 pm. the following day, K13 tore the bollards out of the barges and sank again, flooding through the hole. The submarine was finally salvaged on 15 March, repaired and recommissioned as HMS K22.
The court of inquiry found that four of the 37 inch diameter ventilators had been left open during the dive, and that indicator lights in the control room had actually showed them as open. The engine room hatch was also found to be open.
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