dismantled and shipped to Istanbul, was re-erected and commissioned into the Ottoman Navy as the 'Abdulhamid', seen here at Constantinople. She had the distinction of being the first ever submarine to fire a torpedo whilst submerged.
The second was demonstrated at the Spithead Review in 1888 and bought on the spot by the Tsar of Russia but was wrecked on the Jutland Coast on her delivery trip. However, when the Admiralty first determined to use steam propulsion for their 1913 K Class design and when the advent of nuclear power put steam propulsion back into submarines again in 1959, Barrow shipyard could surely reflect: 'So what's new? We did it as long ago as 1886.'
