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HMS J1

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HMAS J-1 was a J class submarine built by HM Dockyard at Portsmouth in Hampshire and launched on 6 November 1915. J1 torpedoed and damaged the enemy German dreadnoughts Kronprinz and Grosser Kurfurst off Horns Reef on 5 November 1916, was transferred to Australia on 25 March 1919 and operated out of Geelong in Victoria, paid off on 12 July 1922, sold on 26 February 1924 and sunk on 26 May 1926.