E class submarine
| E-class
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
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| Group
| Surfaced
| Submerged
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| 1
| 652 tons | 795 tons
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| 2/3
| 662 tons | 807 tons
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| Length:
|
| Group
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| 1
| 53.65m
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| 2/3
| 54.86m
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| Beam:
| 6.86m
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| Draught:
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| Propulsion:
| Twin-shift, 2 x 1600 bhp Vickers diesel,
2 x 840 shp electric motors
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| Speed:
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| Surfaced
| Submerged
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| 15.25 knots | 9.75 knots
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| Range:
| 325 nm surfaced, 24 days endurance
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| Complement:
| 3 officers, 28 ratings
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| Armament:
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| Group
| Torpedoes
| Guns
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| 1
| 1 x 18" bow tube
2 x 18" beam tubes
1 x 18" stern tube
8 torpedoes
| 1 x 12pdr deck gun
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| 2/3
| 2 x 18" bow tube
2 x 18" beam tubes
1 x 18" stern tube
10 torpedoes
| 1 x 12pdr deck gun
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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 World War I. In total, 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, 1917.
- E4 - Launched February 5, 1912.
- E5 - Launched May 17, 1912. Mined & sunk in 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. Sunk on April 28, 1915, in the Sea of Marmara during the Battle of Gallipoli.
- Group 2
- E9 - Launched November 29, 1913.
- 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. Sunk by German ship KE41 on May 24, 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. Torpedoed & sunk, 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.
- 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.
- E48 - Launched August 2, 1916.
- E49 - Launched September 18, 1916. Mined & sunk, 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.
