British E class submarine

British E class submarine

The British E class submarines started out as improved versions of the British D class submarine. All of the first group and some of the second group were completed before the outbreak of World War One.

The group 1 boats of the E class cost £101,900 per hull but the price eventually increased when the second group entered service to £105,700 per hull.

As submarine technology improved, the E class went through several modifications to install the new improvements which were all installed by the time the final group was under construction.

The class served in the North Sea and the Baltic and Turkish operations while some served with Russian ships in Russian coastal waters before being scuttled to avoid capture by the communists who were gradually taking control of Russia.

The E class served with the Royal Navy throughout World War One as the backbone of the submarine fleet and were eventually replaced by the British L class submarine. All the E class submarines were withdrawn from service by 1922.

Boats

*Group 1
**"E1" - Launched November 9 1912.
**"E2" - Launched November 23 1912.
**"E3" - Launched October 29 1912. Torpedoed by "U27" on October 18 1914 Diving video of the E3 [http://www.hollandadventureproductions.nl/E.E3.html]
**"E4" - Launched February 5 1912.
**"E5" - Launched May 17 1912. Mined & sunk in the North Sea, March 7 1916.
**"E6" - Launched November 12 1912. Mined on December 26 1915.
**"E7" - Launched October 2 1913. Scuttled on September 5 1915 in the Dardanelles during the Battle of Gallipoli.
**"E8" - Launched October 30 1913.
**"AE1" - Built for the RAN. Lost near Papua New Guinea, September 14 1914.
**"AE2" - Built for the RAN. Scuttled on April 28 1915, in the Sea of Marmara during the Battle of Gallipoli.
*Group 2
**"E9" - Launched November 29, 1913. Part of the British submarine flotilla in the Baltic.
**"E10" - Launched November 29, 1913. Lost January 18, 1915.
**"E11" - Launched April 23, 1914.
**"E12" - Launched September 5, 1914.
**"E13" - Launched September 22, 1914. Ran aground and interned by the Danes.
**"E14" - Launched July 7, 1914. January 271918, Sunk by coastal battery fire. Nine survivors.
**"E15" - Launched April 23, 1914. Destroyed on April 19, 1915 in the Dardanelles.
**"E16" - Launched September 23, 1914.
**"E17" - Launched January 16, 1915.
**"E18" - Launched March 4, 1915. Lost in May 1916.
**"E19" - Launched May 13, 1915.
**"E20" - Launched June 12, 1915. Torpedoed on November 5, 1915 in the Dardanelles.
*Group 3
**"E21" - Launched July 24, 1915.
**"E22" - Launched August 27, 1915. In 1916 fitted as aircraft carrier for 2 Sopwith Baby floatplanes. Torpedoed and sunk in North Sea off Great Yarmouth while on surface by German U-boat, April 25, 1916.
**"E23" - Launched September 28, 1915.
**"E24" - Launched December 9, 1915. Minelayer.
**"E25" - Launched August 23, 1915.
**"E26" - Launched November 11, 1915. Lost on July 6, 1916.
**"E27" - Launched June 9, 1917.
**HMS E28 was cancelled on 20 April 1915.
**"E29" - Launched June 1, 1915.
**"E30" - Launched June 29, 1915. Lost on November 22, 1916.
**"E31" - Launched August 23, 1915.
**"E32" - Launched August 16, 1916.
**"E33" - Launched April 18, 1916.
**"E34" - Launched January 27, 1917. Minelayer.Diving video of the E34 [http://www.hollandadventureproductions.nl/N.E34.html]
**"E35" - Launched May 20, 1916.
**"E36" - Launched September 16, 1916. Lost on January 17, 1917.
**"E37" - Launched September 2, 1915. Lost on December 1, 1916.
**"E38" - Launched June 13, 1916.
**"E39" - Launched May 18, 1916.
**"E40" - Launched November 9, 1916.
**"E41" - Launched October 22, 1915. Minelayer.
**"E42" - Launched October 22, 1915.
**"E43" - Launched November 11 1915.
**"E44" - Launched February 21 1916.
**"E45" - Launched January 25 1916. Minelayer.
**"E46" - Launched April 4 1916. Minelayer.
**"E47" - Launched May 29 1916. Lost on August 20 1917.Diving video of the E47 [http://www.hollandadventureproductions.nl/N.E47.html]
**"E48" - Launched August 2 1916.
**"E49" - Launched September 18 1916. Mined & sunk near Huney in the Shetland Islands, March 12 1917.
**"E50" - Launched November 13 1916. Mined & sunk, February 1 1918.
**"E51" - Launched November 30 1916. Minelayer.
**"E52" - Launched January 25 1917.
**"E53" - Launched in 1916.
**"E54" - Launched in 1916.
**"E55" - Launched February 5 1916.
**"E56" - Launched June 19 1916.

References

*"Submarines, War Beneath the Waves, from 1776 to the Present Day", by Robert Hutchinson ISBN 978-0060819002


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