Built at Fairfield's, the K-13 was the first of the four 'K' class submarines to be built on the Clyde.
On 29 January 1917, she left the Govan Yard to begin sea trials with fifteen Fairfield employees and sixty-five naval personnel on board.,BR.During her third dive, her boiler room flooded and she sank in twenty metres of water.
Thirty-one men were drowned.
It took six weeks to raise the K-13 from the Gareloch after which she was towed to Fairfield, refitted and eventually saw service as the K-22.
Curiously, there is a K-13 submarine memorial park in Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia.
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'The Memorial in Carlingford, NSW, Australia was erected by Charles Albert Harry Freestone, a survivor of K-13, on land donated to Parramatta council by him.'
