HMS E19
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 The British submarine HMS E19 in Reval |
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| Construction data | |
| Ship type | Submarine |
| Ship class | E class |
| Construction designation: | |
| Builder: |
Vickers Ltd. in Barrow-in-Furness construction no .: 4 ?? |
| Keel laying : | November 27, 1914 |
| Launch : | May 13, 1915 |
| Completion: | July 12, 1915 |
| Building-costs: | £ 105,700 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement : | 662 ts standard 807 ts submerged |
| Length: | 55.6 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: | 200 ft (approx. 60 m) |
| Crew : | 30 men |
| Armament: | 5 × 18 inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes 5 reserve torpedoes 1 × QF 12 pounder 18 cwt naval gun |
HMS E19 was an E-class submarine ofthe British Royal Navy that was in servicein the Baltic Sea during World War I.
The E19 belonged to a slightly improved sub-group of 46 boats of the E-class, which at the beginning of the First World War represented the most powerful and newest medium-sized submarine in the Royal Navy.
After commissioning and reaching operational readiness, the boat laid under the command of Lt. Cdr. Francis Cromie together with the sister boat HMS E13 in August 1915 through the Öresund into the Baltic Sea to support the Russian Baltic fleet there and to combat German merchant traffic to the Scandinavian countries.
On October 11, 1915, the boat was able to sink four merchant ships south of the island of Öland within a short period of time . The most spectacular success of the boat was the sinking of the small cruiser SMS Undine on November 7, 1915 north of Cape Arkona .
After the organization of a convoy system for the German merchant ships from 1916, the successes declined noticeably. The boat was in use, interrupted by the seasonal icing of the Baltic Sea, until it scuttled due to the German intervention in Finland until April 1918.
On April 4, 1918, after the occupation of Helsingfors by the German Baltic Sea Division , HMS E19 was self- sunk 1.5 nm south of the lighthouse of Harmaja , along with three sister ships , so as not to let it fall into German hands. The wreck was not lifted.
