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E 1 (I 81)

Built By: Chatham Dockyard (Medway)
Build Group: E1
Fate: Deliberately scuttled in the Baltic off Helsingfors to prevent their capture by the German Army.

The Care and Maintenance Party (under Lieutenant Downie) who carried out the scuttling also destroyed all of the stores and torpedoes of the Baltic Flotilla before returning home safely via Petrograd & Archangel.

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Commanders
1913: Lieutenant Commander  Noel Frank Laurence  
1915: Commander  Noel Frank Laurence  
1916: Lieutenant Commander  Athelstan Fenner  

Started life as D9 Sent to the Baltic in 1914

1914: 8th Flotilla Portsmouth, HMS Maidstone and Adamant
1914: 8th Flotilla. HMS Maidstone, Harwich.
1914: Baltic Flotilla. Dvina, Revel (Tallin); ?>), Estonia.
1915: Baltic Flotilla. Dvina, Revel (Tallin), Estonia.
1916: Baltic Flotilla. Dvina, Revel (Tallin), Estonia.
1917: Baltic Flotilla. Dvina, Revel (Tallin), Estonia.
1917: Baltic Flotilla. Pamyat Azova, Helsingfors (Finland).

Along with E5 carried out a reconnaissance of the Kattegat in anticipation of forming the Baltic Flotilla.

One of five boats to penetrate the Baltic. She sailed in October 1914 along with E9 (Horton) and E11 (Nasmith). She was the first of the E boats to reach the Baltic.

Roll of Honour
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Died: 13-03-1917
Coe, William Greenall 
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Died: 13-03-1917
Died of influenza/pneumonia although TB had also been diagnosed.

Events

14-02-1911 Laid Down
09-11-1911 Launched
06-05-1913 Completed
18-10-1914 Attacked the Victoria Louise, the torpedoes missed as a result of running too deep.
30-07-1915 Attacked and sank the transport Aachen
19-08-1915 Damaged the German battlecruiser Moltke
03-04-1918 Deliberately scuttled in the Baltic off Helsingfors to prevent their capture by the German Army.

The Care and Maintenance Party (under Lieutenant Downie) who carried out the scuttling also destroyed all of the stores and torpedoes of the Baltic Flotilla before returning home safely via Petrograd & Archangel.
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E 2 (I 82)