submarine facts ww1

E22 was involved in experiments in the North Sea to intercept Zeppelins on 24 April 1916. Extra pay seems to have played only a minor part in the submarine sailor’s considerations. Human remains found in the wreck are buried in Ohlsdorf, Hamburg. Submarine Warfare in WW1 . The E class served with the Royal Navy throughout World War I as the backbone of the submarine fleet and were eventually replaced by the British L class submarine. E1 was one of five boats to penetrate The Baltic when she damaged the German battle cruiser Moltke on 19 August 1915.

A local man bought the salvage rights to the vessel and the wreck was scrapped. Lieutenant-Commander Naper was identified because of the 2+half rings on sleeve, and the fact that his skeleton was 6 ft. tall. B8 was sold on 31 October 1919 in Malta.B10 was built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness, launched 23 March 1906 and completed 28 April 1906. Whilst carrying out anti-submarine exercises in the North Sea on the 15th August 1916, E41 acting as a target, had begun a surface passage of 12 knots when E4s periscope appeared 50 yards off her starboard bow, on a collision course. E2 was commissioned on the 13th July 1913, and in January 1914 she was assigned to the 8th Flotilla which initially operated out of Portsmouth, but moved to Harwich at the outbreak of the War. While at periscope depth, it was observed that the Zeppelin was losing altitude as it had been hit by shells from the light cruisers Galatea and Phaeton.E31 surfaced to shoot the Zeppelin down and rescued seven survivors. In 1917 the Italian Navy converted B8 into to surface patrol boat S8 to serve in the Adriatic. The wreck of E8 was salvaged in August 1953 and was broken up in FinlandE9 was a British E class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow. She was laid down on 27 August 1914 and was commissioned on 8 November 1915. E11 made a total of three tours of the Sea of Marmara and sank 27 steamers and 58 smaller vessels.E12 was built by HM Dockyard, Chatham and was launched on the 5E13 was built by HM Dockyard, Chatham, and was launched on the 22E14 was built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness.

Her distinction is that she had two commanding officers, each of whom won the Victoria Cross in the same area but three years apart.

Inexpensive to build and manned by small crews they required a minimum of support and possessed excellent endurance.

At 23:45 that night, the flotilla and torpedo boats were steaming line ahead at 11 knots, and were 4.5 miles from Happisburgh Light, approximately 20 miles from Cromer. On 27th October 1918, G2 was patrolling in the Skagerrak between Denmark, Norway and Sweden when she detected low frequency communications emanating from what turned out to be the German minelaying submarine U-78. On 12th September 1917, D7 torpedoed and sank the German submarine U-45, with a single torpedo fired from her stern tube at a range of 800 yards. E17 stayed on the bottom of the North Sea for 70 years, until a Dutch diver discovered it, this Conning Tower was Brought to HMS Dolphin on the 10E18 was built by Vickers , Barrow and was launched on the 4th of March 1915. Her attempts to free herself did not pass unnoticed by the Turks and they soon started attacking the boat with bombs dropped from small boats.At the time, the German submarine UB-14 was undergoing repairs at Chanak. The E class served with the Royal Navy throughout World War I as the backbone of the submarine fleet and were eventually replaced by the British L class submarine. She was laid down in November 1914, launched on 11 November 1915, and was commissioned on 3 October 1915. on the 2nd July 1916 a German Patrol boat reported a trail of oil on the surface just off the Ems that was thought to be emanating from a submarine.

E17 believing the Cruiser was belligerent submerged, but owing to the damage was forced to surface again. E11 was one of the most successful submarines in action during the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign against Turkey, sinking more than 80 vessels of all sizes in three tours of the Sea of Marmara. Due to the lack of spare parts this group of submarines was not used after September 1915. The Germans now knew of the rendezvous and dispatched U14 to intercept the unsuspecting E20. Three weeks later, Horton sank the German destroyer S 116 off the mouth of the River Ems. E8 then spent the night at sea before being joined by C26 and C35. It took two days to repair it. E18 left its base in the Russian port of Reval, Estonia  on the evening of 25 May 1916 and headed west. Detonating a mine, the submarine and all her 38 crew sank under a cloud smoke and debris. E24 left Harwich on the morning of 21 March 1916 to lay mines in the Helgoland Bight. B11 was a small (300 ton), under-powered (225hp electric motor) and obsolete boat dating back to 1905 and the early days of submarine development.