| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | E3ML |
| Fate: | 15/8/1916 - Sank off Harwich after collision with HMS E4 Scrapped in September 1922 |
| 1915: | Lieutenant Commander | Norman Douglas Holbrook | VC |
| 1916: | Lieutenant | A M Winser |
8th Flotilla. Harwich.
Roll of Honour |
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| Beail, Albert Victor |
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| Daniels, Charles Ceal |
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| Evans, Jack |
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| Frewer, Walter |
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| Gaunt, Frederick Henry |
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| Grant, William Alexander |
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| Klemp, Charles Thomas (RNR) |
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| Monckton, Sidney |
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| Roach, George Frederick |
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| Saywell, Herbert Nelson |
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| Stewart, Alfred George |
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| Wells, John |
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| 22-10-1915 | Launched |
| 01-02-1916 | 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, salvaged for return to service, although E41 never served again. NOTE: William Brown’s survival was remarkable - he found himself trapped alone inside E41 when the submarine sank. By his own efforts and his extensive knowledge of the submarine systems he managed in darkness to isolate the compartment, flood and equalise the space and make a free ascent escape reaching the surface successfully about half an hour after the collision. |
| Class: | 1983 - 2025: Trafalgar Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 4b |
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| Decommissioned at Devonport 19-06-2014 | |
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| Class: | 1983 - 2025: Trafalgar Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 4b |
| Fate: | |
| Decommissioned at Devonport 19-06-2014 | |
From Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King Of Scotland) comes this gripping thriller about a rogue submarine captain, played by Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes, The Talented My Ripley) who pulls together a misfit crew to search for sunken treasure in the Black Sea.
As greed and desperation take control, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
18 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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Comments
Comment by: William de Villiers on January 3rd, 2020
E41 was salvaged and subjected to an extensive re-fit. Lieutenant-Commander Norman D. Holbrook, VC, was appointed in command on commissioning in February, 1917, and she served thereafter in the 9th Submarine Flotilla, based on H.M.S. Maidstone at Harwich. She was sold for scrapping in 1922.
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