| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | E1 |
| Fate: | Lost with all hands in collision with E41 on 15th August 1916. Salvaged and put back into service. Sold 21st February 1922. |
1914 - 8th Flotilla. HMS Maidstone, Harwich.
Supported the British surface fleet at the 'Battle of Helgoland'.
Lt. E.W. Leir was affectionately known as the 'Arch Thief' who plundered His Majesty's Navy of anything portable and about whom it was said that only his DSO was earned honestly.
Leir carried out the first major rescue by a submarine. After an engagement with the German destroyer V187 which was sunk, HMS Defender had lowered boats to pick up survivors when a German cruiser arrived on the scene.
Though everyone had been ordered to retire, Leir surfaced and took on board an officer and nine ratings from the Defender and one officer and two men from the German destroyer. He provided the rest of the Germans with boats, food and compass to get them back to Heligoland.
Roll of Honour |
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| Bacon, Cyril |
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| Bacon, James |
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| Bagwell, Andrew |
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| Baker, Henry Thomas (RNVR) |
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| Baldock, Alfred Henry |
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| Bennett, George Henry |
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| Broad, Alfred Henry |
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| Carpenter, Henry George |
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| Cooley, Frank Henry |
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| Denison, John |
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| Dudley, Charles Henry |
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| Dundee-Hooper, Stewart Briscoe |
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| Fenwick, William Thackray |
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| Gadsby, William Wallace |
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| Gibson, John William |
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| Halls, William Charles Edward |
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| Hewlett, Harry |
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| Hodgson, Ronald William |
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| Hunter, William (RNR) |
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| Jolliffe, Francis Henry |
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| Matthews, Frank Richardson |
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| Millard, Jocelyn Alfred |
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| Nichols, Frederick Noel |
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| Preskett, Harry |
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| Repper, Charles |
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| Salisbury, James Henry |
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| Smith, Leonard Williams |
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| Snow, Sidney |
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| Tenison, Julian Tenison |
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| Tovey, Maurice William |
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| Ward, John James |
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| Warwick, John Coster |
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| 16-05-1911 | Laid Down |
| 05-12-1912 | Launched |
| 04-01-1913 | Completed |
| 15-08-1916 | Whilst carrying out anti submarine exercises in the North Sea, HMS E41 acting as a target, had begun a surface passage of 12 knots when HMS E4s periscope appeared 50 yards off her starboard bow, on a collision course. E41 stopped her engines but not before E4 collided forward of the bridge. E41 began to take in water through the forward battery compartment and began to sink by the bow. In less than two minutes the conning tower was under the water. HMS Firdrake, who had been monitoring the exercise, took less than two minutes to reach the scene of the collision to pick up survivors. There were no survivors from E4. Both submarines were eventually located and salvaged for return to service, although E41 never served again. |
| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | T 2 |
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| Believed to have been sunk 'With All Hands' on 6th August 1942 after an attack on an Italian convoy in the Mediterranean in position 34°25'N, 22°36'E. A Ju-88 aircraft had been seen to make a machine-gun attack ahead of the convoy. The Italian torpedo boat Pegaso then detected a contact and carried out a series of depth charge attacks. After seven attacks, a large air bubble was seen, as was a large oil slick. HMS Thorn had been expected to arrive at Beirut but was declared overdue on 11th August 1942 when she did not arrive. | |
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| Class: | 1935 - 1970: T Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | T 2 |
| Fate: | |
| Believed to have been sunk 'With All Hands' on 6th August 1942 after an attack on an Italian convoy in the Mediterranean in position 34°25'N, 22°36'E. A Ju-88 aircraft had been seen to make a machine-gun attack ahead of the convoy. The Italian torpedo boat Pegaso then detected a contact and carried out a series of depth charge attacks. After seven attacks, a large air bubble was seen, as was a large oil slick. HMS Thorn had been expected to arrive at Beirut but was declared overdue on 11th August 1942 when she did not arrive. | |
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