HMS E26 explained
HMS E26 was a
British E-class submarine built by
William Beardmore and Company,
Dalmuir. She was, along with the future, one of a pair of submarines ordered by the
Ottoman Navy on 29 April 1914, but was taken over by the
Royal Navy and assigned the
E26 name. She was
laid down in November 1914,
launched on 11 November 1915, and was commissioned on 3 October 1915.
HMS E26 was lost with all hands in the North Sea, probably in the vicinity of the eastern Ems, on or about 3 July 1916. Her wreck has been found by a group of Dutch divers in 2006.[1] [2]
Design
Like all post-E8 British E-class submarines, E26 had a displacement of 662LT at the surface and 807LT while submerged. She had a total length of 180feet[3] and a beam of 22feet. She was powered by two Vickers eight-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines and two electric motors.[4] [5] The submarine had a maximum surface speed of 16kn and a submerged speed of 10kn. British E-class submarines had fuel capacities of 50LT of diesel and ranges of 3255miles when travelling at 10kn.[3] E26 was capable of operating submerged for five hours when travelling at 5kn.
E26 was armed with a 12-pounder 76mm 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; a total of 10 torpedoes were carried.[4]
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.[3]
Crew
Her complement was three officers and 28 men.[3]
Bibliography
External links
Notes and References
- Royal Naval Submarine Museum. Submarine losses 1904 to present day. p.6 https://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/what-we-have/memorial-chapel/submarine-losses?start=5
- Web site: 2017-01-03 . Nederlandse Noordzee-duikers identificeren Engelse onderzeeboot uit Eerste Wereldoorlog Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed . 2024-03-29 . 3 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170103003421/https://www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/nieuws/nederlandse-noordzee-duikers-identificeren-engelse-onderzeeboot-uit-eerste-wereldoorlog . bot: unknown .
- Book: Innes McCartney. Tony Bryan. British Submarines of World War I. 20 February 2013. Osprey Publishing. 978-1-4728-0035-0. 11–12.
- Akerman, P. (1989). Encyclopaedia of British submarines 1901 - 1955. p.150. Maritime Books.
- 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.
