British E class submarine

HMAS AE2
E-class
General Characteristics
Displacement:	Group Surfaced Submerged 1 652 tons 795 tons 2/3 662 tons 807 tons
Length:	Group 1 53.65 m 2/3 54.86 m
Beam:	6.86 m
Draught:	Group 1 3.68 m 2/3 3.81 m
Propulsion:	Twin-shift, 2 x 1,600 bhp Vickers diesel, 2 x 840 shp electric motors
Speed:	Surfaced Submerged 15.25 knots 9.75 knots
Range:	325 nm surfaced, 24 days endurance
Complement:	3 officers, 28 ratings
Armament:	Group Torpedoes Guns 1 1 x 18" bow tube 2 x 18" beam tubes 1 x 18" stern tube 8 torpedoes 1 x 12pdr deck gun 2/3 2 x 18" bow tube 2 x 18" beam tubes 1 x 18" stern tube 10 torpedoes 1 x 12 pdr deck gun

The Royal Navy's E-class of diesel/electric submarines were built between 1912 and 1916 and were the mainstay of the submarine fleet during the First World War. A total of 58 boats were built, including two constructed for the Royal Australian Navy.

The boats were built in three groups. Six boats of Group 3 were built as minelayers which were fitted with 20 vertical tubes instead of the two beam tubes.

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 [1]
  • 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.
  • E14 - Launched July 7, 1914. Mined & sunk, January 27, 1918.
  • 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 flaotplanes. 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.
  • 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 [2]

• • 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 [3]

• • 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.

British E class submarine
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Royal Australian Navy	AE1 | AE2
List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

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