We deeply regret to have to record the loss of
the sub- marine A 3,' which foundered, with four officers and ten men at noon on Friday week. During the course of instructional evolutions off the Isle of Wight the submarine came into collision with the Hazard,' the torpedo-gunboat which acts as seagoing depot for the submarine flotilla at Portsmouth was "holed" by the gunboat's propeller and sank immediately near the Nab lightship, not far from where submarine A 1' was lost with all hands in 1904. A large escape of air showed that the submarine was flooded and all chance of escape cut off. The A 3' belonged to an earlier typo of submarine, and the crew, it is stated, were not pro- vided with the chemical respiration helmets served out to the newer submarines, but it seems that no improvements or devices as yet invented could have averted the fatal 'conse- quences of such extensive damage as the A 3' received.
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