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E 3 (I 83)

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: E1
Fate: Submarine E3 had been detailed to patrol off the Island of Borkum in the North Sea. However Submarine E3 was sighted, whilst on the surface, by the German U-Boat U-27.

The Commander of U-27 fired his torpedoes and sank E3. It is reported that four of the crew were seen in the water after the Submarine sank but the Commander of U-27 (Lieutenant Commander Bernhard Wegener) was unwilling to close the area to make a rescue as he was concerned that there was another British Submarine in the area.

When he finally closed the area of the sinking all four had vanished. As a result all of the crew of Submarine E3 died in the sinking.
E3
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Commanders
1914: Lieutenant Commander   G Cholmley

1914: 8th Flotilla Portsmouth, HMS Maidstone and Adamant
8th Flotilla. HMS Maidstone, Harwich.

This boat was the first submarine loss of WWI.

She had wandered too far into the Western Ems looking for likely targets and was cut off by destroyers and sunk by a U-boat.

Roll of Honour
28
 
Barrow, John Gerald 
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Sub Lieutenant Aged: 20
Beal, William Alexander  K 8664
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Stoker Aged: 22
Beckwith, Percy  K 2496
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Stoker Aged: 24
Blake, Charley Ellman  M 280
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Aged: 28
Cholmley, George Francis 
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Lieutenant Commander Aged: 32
Commanding Officer
Coutanche, Stanley Vernon  229936
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Leading Seaman Aged: 26
Douglas, Alfred John  K 4408
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Stoker Aged: 25
Edroff, Frederick Wallace  216669
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Petty Officer Aged: 31
Harris, Herbert Joseph  175521
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Petty Officer Aged: 37
Hellon, Richard Saunders  271113
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Aged: 34
House, Alfred Ernest  K 808
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Stoker Aged: 24
Hunt, Albert Edward  235216
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Able Seaman Aged: 25
Hunt, Fred  269555
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Engine Room Artificer 1st Class Aged: 37
Jones, Robert  215732
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Able Seaman Aged: 28
Lowman, William George  J 10953
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Able Seaman Aged: 20
Macfarlane, George Webster  160606
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Chief Petty Officer Aged: 39
Matheson, Neil  287663
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Chief Stoker Aged: 36
Merritt, Percy George  301550
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Stoker Petty Officer Aged: 31
Morgan, Alfred Lowe  223305
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Signalman Aged: 27
Querotret, Peter  210665
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Able Seaman Aged: 29
Scott, Edgar  K 2072
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Stoker Aged: 25
Scott, John Stuart Binny 
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Lieutenant Aged: 26
Stothard, Joseph  M 987
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Aged: 27
Tanner, George Henry  222533
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Leading Stoker Aged: 27
Taylor, George William  J 5939 Born: 21st Mar, 1890. 
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Leading Seaman Aged: 24
RN DoB 21/03/1889
Westrope, John William  201402
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Leading Seaman Aged: 31
Whittington, Jesse  K 3399
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Stoker 1st Class Aged: 23
Young, William  221404
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Able Seaman Aged: 28

Events

 27-04-1911   Laid Down
 29-12-1912   Launched
 29-05-1914   Completed
 18-10-1914   Sunk off Borkum Island by U27 - First submarine loss of WWI.
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