E9
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | E Group 2 |
| 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. |
E9
Submarine E9 was one of the boats of the Baltic Submarine Flotilla.
Roll of Honour
| Name | Rank | Number | Hons | Age |
| Buss, James | Leading Seaman | |||
| Died from influenza or pneumonia 20/03/1917 | ||||
| Langridge, Frederick Charles | Leading Stoker | |||
| Taken ill and died 06/07/1916 | ||||
Events
| 01-06-1912 : | Laid Down |
| 29-10-1913 : | Launched |
| 16-06-1914 : | Completed |
| 13-09-1914 : | The first offensive success by a British submarine was scored by E9, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Max Horton, who had 'stood by' his boat during her construction at Barrow On 13th September, 1914, Horton sighted the German cruiser Hela near Heligoland, closed to 600 yards and fired two torpedoes, one of which struck amidships. Hela sank and E9 was hunted for the remainder of the day but successfully escaped During her next patrol in the Bight, E9 sank the destroyer S116. |
| 17-12-1915 : | HMS E9 sinks the German Cruiser Bremen and V191 in the East Baltic |
| 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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