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E5 HMS submarine

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Aug 26, 2014 8:38 pm

Builder: Vickers, Barrow in Furness
Cost: £106,700
Laid down: 9 June 1911
Commissioned: 28 June 1913
Fate: Sunk by mine, 7 March 1916 ?
Class & type: E-class submarine
Displacement: 665 long tons (676 t) (surfaced)
796 long tons (809 t) (submerged)
Length: 178 ft (54 m)
Beam: 15 ft 5 in (4.70 m)
Installed power: 3,500 hp (2,600 kW) (diesel engines)
1,200 hp (890 kW) (electric motors)
Propulsion: 2 × diesel engines
2 × electric motors
2 × screws
Speed: 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) (surfaced)
9.5 kn (10.9 mph; 17.6 km/h) (submerged)
Range: 3,000 nmi (3,500 mi; 5,600 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
65 nmi (75 mi; 120 km) at 5 kn (5.8 mph; 9.3 km/h)
Complement: 30
Armament: 4 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern)

HMS E5 had a very short career before and after her commissioning. She had an engine room explosion on 8 June 1913, 20 days before commissioning. 3 were killed and 9 badly burned.
The 3 were killed when there was an oil blow back into the starboard engine off St Ann's Head. Those killed where Engineer Cmdr Walter Lancelot Moore, who lost 2 legs and 1 arm and suffering 3rd degree burns, died in hospital at Pembroke Dock, returned for burial in Hampshire, believed to be in Winchester. The 1st to die at the time and scene of the explosion was CERA James Alexander Greenall son of Henry & Alice Greenall of Preston Lancs. The 3rd and last to die was Leading Stoker Lewis Alfred Clarke of Esher in Surrey, who also died in Pembroke Dock Naval Hospital. The latter 2 are buried at Llanion Cemetery, Pembroke Dock in plots R244 (Greenall) and R246 (Clarke). 10 persons were seriously injured, although all civilian staff from Barrow where safe and unharmed other ships involved where HMS ADAMANT (Submarine Escort ship) and HMS ALLIGATOR which carried the medical team out to meet HMS E5 on her way into Pembroke Dock.
HMS E 5’s crew were awarded Prize Bounty Money for the destruction of a German Armed Auxiliary, 25 Sep 1915.
HMS E 5 sailed from Harwich on 4 March 1916 to carry out a patrol between Ameland and the Ems; three other submarines were also on patrol at the same time – HMS E-29 between the Ems and Nordeney; HMS H-5 between Horns Reef and List; HMS E-23 to the west of 8 degrees. All were due to return to Harwich on 10 March, but HMS E-5 failed to return.
She was last seen on the afternoon of 6 March about 7 miles to the north of Juist Island by E29.
There are various theories as to how HMS E 5 met her fate.
At 08.10 on 7 March the SEYDLITZ and escorting torpedo boats saw a submarine and dropped depth charges, but there was no obvious result. Later that day the REGENSBURG sighted a submarine further to the east of this area.
This was possibly HMS E-5.
Besides the story of her loss whilst rescuing survivors off the RESONO, her loss is also put down to depth charge by the SEYDLITZ and her accompanying torpedo boats. She may also have strayed into a German minefield having been sighted by the REGENSBURG.
One other theory is that HMS E-5 was lost while rescuing survivors from HMT RESONO (Wikipedia and one or two other sites). However, RESONO was mined on 26 December 1915 near the Sunk light vessel (Lloyd’s War Losses of WW1) and HMS E 5 was not lost until 6/7 March 1916. I can find no trace of a RESONO being lost in 1916.

The book British Warships Losses by David Hepper gives on her loss: 7 March? The last sighting was near a defensive minefield on the Western Ems and it is presumed that she was lost on a mine soon after.

On the RESONO he gives: an Admiralty trawler employed as a patrol vessel sank 26 December 1915 after striking a submarine-laid mine, part of a field laid by UC-5 ten days earlier off the Sunk Sand lightship in the Thames estuary.


Sources: Wikipedia. http://uboat.net/forums/read.php?23,768 ... #msg-76842
https://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/what ... es?start=5; http://www.harwichanddovercourt.co.uk/submarines-ww1/ ; http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBri ... eMoney.htm ;
Stamp image from internet.

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