HMS E34
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| Name | E34 |
| Builder | John Thornycroft, Woolston, Hampshire |
| Launched | 27 January 1917 |
| Commissioned | March 1917 |
| Fate | Sunk by mine, 20 July 1918 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | E-class submarine |
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| Length | 181 ft (55 m) |
| Beam | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
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| Complement | 31 |
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HMS E34 was a British E-class submarine built by John Thornycroft, Woolston, Hampshire. She was launched on 27 January 1917 and commissioned in March 1917. HMS E34 sank the U-boat UB-16 off Harwich in the North Sea on 10 May 1918. E34 was a mine-laying submarine.[1]
E34 was mined near the Eijerlandse Gronden, the sands between the Frisian islands Texel and Vlieland on 20 July 1918. There were no survivors.
Design
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Like all post-E8 British E-class submarines, E34 had a displacement of 662 long tons (673 t) at the surface and 807 long tons (820 t) while submerged. She had a total length of 180 feet (55 m)[2] and a beam of 22 feet 8.5 inches (6.922 m). She was powered by two 800 horsepower (600 kW) Vickers eight-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines and two 420 horsepower (310 kW) electric motors.[3][4] The submarine had a maximum surface speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) and a submerged speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). British E-class submarines had fuel capacities of 50 long tons (51 t) of diesel and ranges of 3,255 miles (5,238 km; 2,829 nmi) when travelling at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).[2] E34 was capable of operating submerged for five hours when travelling at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph).
E34 was armed with a 12-pounder 76 mm (3.0 in) QF gun mounted forward of the conning tower.
Like the other E-class minelaying submarines (E24, E41, E45, E46 and E51), E34 had three 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes instead of five: two in the bow and one in the stern. Six torpedoes were carried.[5] The two broadside torpedo tubes were replaced by mine tubes carrying a total of twenty mines.[6]
E-Class submarines had wireless systems with 1 kilowatt (1.3 hp) power ratings; in some submarines, these were later upgraded to 3 kilowatts (4.0 hp) systems by removing a midship torpedo tube. Their maximum design depth was 100 feet (30 m) although in service some reached depths of below 200 feet (61 m). Some submarines contained Fessenden oscillator systems.[2]
Crew
[edit]Her complement was three officers and 28 men.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "E34". Website of the Barrow Submariners Association.
- ^ a b c d Innes McCartney; Tony Bryan (20 February 2013). British Submarines of World War I. Osprey Publishing. pp. 11–12. ISBN 978-1-4728-0035-0.
- ^ Akerman, P. (1989). Encyclopaedia of British submarines 1901–1955. 149–150. Maritime Books. ISBN 1-904381-05-7 [1]
- ^ "E Class". Chatham Submarines. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ "Complement, armament, periscopes and HP air bottles" (PDF). Website of the Barrow Submariners Association.
- ^ "Minelayer type". Website of the Barrow Submariners Association.
Bibliography
[edit]- Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010.
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- British E-class submarines of the Royal Navy
- Ships built in Southampton
- 1917 ships
- World War I submarines of the United Kingdom
- World War I shipwrecks in the North Sea
- Royal Navy ship names
- Maritime incidents in 1918
- Ships sunk by mines
- Ships built by John I. Thornycroft & Company
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