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E 8 (I 88)

Built By: Chatham Dockyard (Medway)
Build Group: E2
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
1914: Lieutenant Commander   Francis Goodhart
1915: Commander   Francis Goodhart
1916: Lieutenant   Thomas Kerr

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).

Supported the British surface fleet at the 'Battle of Helgoland'.

Entered the Baltic to join E1 and E9 to support the Russians in August 1915.

This vessel had previously been damaged by Horton in E9.

Events

 30-03-1912   Laid Down
 30-10-1913   Launched
 13-06-1914   Completed
 23-10-1915   HMS E8 sank the German armored cruiser Prinz Adalbert in the Baltic. The sinking led the Germans to temporarily withdraw all their capital ships from operations in the Baltic
 08-04-1918   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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