HMS E18
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 HMS E18 in Oresund , September 1915 |
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| Ship type | Submarine |
| Ship class | E class |
| Builder: |
Vickers Ltd. in Barrow-in-Furness construction no .: |
| Keel laying : | January 1, 1914 |
| Launch : | March 4, 1915 |
| Completion: | June 6, 1915 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement : | 667 tn.l. 807 tn.l. submerged |
| Length: | 54.86 m |
| Width: | 6.86 m |
| Draft : | 3.81 m |
| Drive : | 2 × diesel engines with 1600 HP 2 × electric motors 840 HP 2 propellers |
| Fuel supply: | 40 t |
| Speed : | 15.25 kn surfaced 9.75 kn submerged |
| Range : | 3,200 nm surfaced at 10 kn 95 nm submerged at 3 kn |
| maximum diving depth: | about 60 meters |
| Crew : | 31 men (3 officers, 28 seamen) |
| Armament: | 5 × 18 inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes 5 reserve torpedoes 1 × QF 12 pounder 18 cwt naval gun |
HMS E18 was a submarine of the class E of the Royal Navy , which in the First World War was used in the Baltic Sea and in May 1916 in the coastal waters of Ostseegouvernements Estonia of Tsarist Russia fell.
E18 belonged to an improved subgroup (E Grp2) of E-class submarines, which consisted of 46 boats.
The boat under the command of Lt. Cdr. Robert Halahan moved together with E19 through the Öresund into the Baltic Sea in 1915 , in order to support the Baltic fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy in the fight against German ship movements with E1 .
E18 left the port of Reval ( Tallinn ) on May 25, 1916 on its last voyage together with E8 and a Russian submarine of the Amerikanski Gollanda class (American Holland class) .
British historian Michael Wilson suspects that E18 hit a mine on June 2 and sank. Other sources indicate that E18 was sunk by the German submarine trap K, disguised as a merchant ship .
At the end of October 2009, a remote-controlled diving robot from the research vessel Triad, which belongs to the Swedish marine exploration company MMT, discovered the wreck of the E18 near the Estonian island of Hiiumaa . Today's knowledge of the location suggests that the boat probably fell victim to a mine hit.
Web links
- E18 in the Barrow Submariners Association database
- further information on the E-Class
Individual evidence
- ^ Note in the diary of Francis Goodhart, the commander of E8
- ↑ Wreck in the Baltic Sea. Expedition discovers submarine from the First World War. In: Spiegel Online , October 23, 2009, about the whereabouts of E18 .