E3

 

Type:
'E' Class

Group One
Pennant No.:
I.83

Laid Down:
27th April 1911.
Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness.

Commissioned:
29th May 1914.
Lt. Cdr. G. Cholmley.

Commander:
Jan. 1914
Lt. Cdr. G. Cholmley.

Complement:
31
3 Officers, 28 Ratings.

Service Career:
1914
8th Flotilla, HMS Maidstone, Harwich.

Fate:
This boat was the first submarine loss of WWI.

She had wandered too far into the Western Ems looking for likely targets and was cut off by destroyers and sunk by a U-boat.

Sunk by torpedo (U27) in the North Sea off Borkum 18th October 1914.