HMS E23 explained

HMS E23 was an E-class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 28 September 1914 and was commissioned on 6 December 1915. E23 torpedoed the German dreadnought (18,900 tons), holing her off Terschelling on 19 August 1916. E23 was sold on 6 September 1922 in Sunderland.[1]

Design

Like all post-E8 British E-class submarines, E23 had a displacement of at the surface and while submerged. She had a length of and a beam of .[2] She was powered by two Vickers eight-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines and two electric motors.[3] [4] The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a submerged speed of . British E-class submarines had a fuel capacity of of diesel and ranges of when travelling at .[2] E23 was capable of operating submerged for five hours when travelling at .

E23 was armed with a 12-pounder QF gun, mounted forward of the conning tower. She had five 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, two in the bow, one either side amidships and one in the stern with ten torpedoes on board.[3]

E-class submarines had wireless systems with power ratings; in some submarines, these were later upgraded to systems by removing a midship torpedo tube. Their maximum design depth was although in service some reached depths of below . Some submarines contained Fessenden oscillator systems.[2]

Crew

Her complement was three officers and 28 men.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hutchinson . Robert . Jane's submarines : war beneath the waves from 1776 to the present day . 2001 . HarperCollins . London . 978-0007105588.
  2. Book: Innes McCartney. Tony Bryan. British Submarines of World War I. 20 February 2013. Osprey Publishing. 978-1-4728-0035-0. 11–12.
  3. Akerman, P. (1989). Encyclopaedia of British submarines 1901–1955.  p.150. Maritime Books.
  4. Web site: E Class. Chatham Submarines. 20 August 2015. 13 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150813023119/http://csubmarine.org/html/class/eclass.html. dead.