| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | E2 |
| Fate: | E18 was due to report in to Dagerot on the 2nd of June. Recently laid mines along the submarine's course home the likely cause for E18's loss |
8th Flotilla. HMS Maidstone, Harwich.
Baltic Flotilla. Revel (Tallin), Estonia.
E18 was ordered as part of the 1913/14 Naval Estimates and was built at the Barrow in Furness Yard of Vickers, Sons and Maxims. The submarine was launched on 4th March 1915 and, after commissioning on 6th June 1915, joined the Eighth Submarine Flotilla at Harwich and was later sent to join the Baltic Flotilla.
The Submarine was on patrol in the Baltic on 23rd May 1916 when the Commanding Officer Lieutenant Commander Robert C Halahan torpedoed the German Destroyer V100 blowing off the bows of the German ship. This success was reported on the 24th May which was the last message received from the submarine. No reason for the loss of the submarine has been identified.
Two Ratings who had been members of the E18 crew were left inboard immediately prior to sailing on this last patrol and became inadvertent survivors of the loss. Both men survived J23950 War and one became a significant figure in the early years of the Submarine Old Comrades Association (SOCA). The two were:
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| Bagg, Edwin Albert Thomas |
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| RN DoB 28/02/1878 | ||||||
| Bass, William George |
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| Clack, Frederick |
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| Petty Officer | ||||||
| RN DoB 17/12/1881 | ||||||
| Colson, Douglas Nowell (RNR) DSC |
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| Sub Lieutenant | ||||||
| Duffield, Percy |
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| Stoker 1st Class | ||||||
| Edwards, Clement Harry |
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| Fox, Ernest Alfred |
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| At birth Fox, Alfred Ernest Served as Fox, Ernest Alfred. | ||||||
| Fuller, Maurice Harold |
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| Gaby, George |
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| Galloway, James Kerr (RNR) |
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| Godward, Cyril Francis |
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| Guest, Thomas Edwin |
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| RN DoB 03/02/1891 | ||||||
| Halahan, Robert Crosby |
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| Lieutenant Commander | ||||||
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| Hall, Albert George |
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| Harris, Herbert Thomas |
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| Holland, Charles William |
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| Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class | ||||||
| Hunt, Charles |
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| Landale, Walter Luke |
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| Lieutenant | ||||||
| Maddox, Frank Ladbrooke |
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| Nye, Percy James Peter |
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| Percy, James Reuben |
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| Phillips, Arthur Percy |
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| Powell, William George |
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| Pritchett, Horace Edward |
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| Ruaux, Ernest William |
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| Sheppard, Samuel Arthur |
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| Spencer, William Chadwick |
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| Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class | ||||||
| Turrall, Charles William |
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| Welsh, Sydney Augustus |
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| Able Seaman | ||||||
| RN DoB 15/05/1887. Actual 15/04/1886 | ||||||
| White, Frederick |
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| At birth White, Frederick Charles Served as White, Frederick. | ||||||
| 01-01-1914 | Laid Down |
| 04-03-1915 | Launched |
| 06-06-1915 | Completed |
| 25-05-1916 | E18 & the Russian Gerpard were ordered to sail at 1800 hrs, the Russian Gepard was to patrol off the Swedish coast for German Merchantmen. E8 was to patrol the Steinort area while E18 was given the dangerous Memel billet. |
| 26-05-1916 | E8 sights a group of German warships 25 miles NW of Steinort, E18 just behind E8, manages to blow the bow of the large German destroyer V100, a second torpedoed missed. E18 then escaped and headed off to Memel. |
| 28-05-1916 | E18 was sighted by a German naval aircraft off Memel during the morning, E18 dives. |
| 01-06-1916 | A persicope was clearly sighted 25 miles NW of Steinort by the German U-boat UB-30, all allied submarines were safely back in base, the Germans rightly believed this was E18. The sighting was at 1500 hrs German kept time and E18 was due to report in to Dagerot on the 2nd of June. Recently laid mines along the submarine's course home the likely cause for E18's loss. |
| 17-10-2009 | E18 was found close to the Estonian island of Hiiumaa by a Swedish marine survey company, MMT. They were guided by information provided by an Australian descendant of one of the crew. The Swedish survey vessel, the MV Triad, deployed a remote-operated vehicle and obtained the first pictures showing the submarine in remarkably good condition. |
| Class: | 1924 - 1945: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | O1 |
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| She was decommissioned at Blyth on 5 July 1944 and was sold for scrap on 24 August 1945. Oberon was scrapped at Dunston by Clayton and Davie | |
The year 2001 records the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Submarine Service, and Antony Preston presents a day-by-day account of life in the service. In 1901, Holland One, the Royal Navy's first submarine, fitted with a single torpedo tube, was born at Vickers-Armstrong amidst great controversy, in an era when the submarine was regarded as the weapon of the weaker power
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| Class: | 1924 - 1945: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | O1 |
| Fate: | |
| She was decommissioned at Blyth on 5 July 1944 and was sold for scrap on 24 August 1945. Oberon was scrapped at Dunston by Clayton and Davie | |
The year 2001 records the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Submarine Service, and Antony Preston presents a day-by-day account of life in the service. In 1901, Holland One, the Royal Navy's first submarine, fitted with a single torpedo tube, was born at Vickers-Armstrong amidst great controversy, in an era when the submarine was regarded as the weapon of the weaker power
13 pages added or updated in the last 3 month
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