HMAS AE2
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 HMAS AE2 |
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| Career Australia |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong |
| Laid down: | 10 February 1912 |
| Launched: | 18 June 1913 |
| Commissioned: | 28 February 1914 |
| Status: | Scuttled 29 April 1915 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 660 tons (surfaced), 800 tons (submerged) |
| Length: | 181 feet |
| Beam: | 22 feet 6 inches |
| Draught: | 12 feet 6 inches |
| Propulsion: | 2 sets of 8 cylinder diesel engines, battery driven electric motors. 1,750 hp (surfaced), 550 hp (submerged) |
| Speed: | 15 knots (surfaced), 10 knots (submerged) |
| Complement: | 35 |
| Armament: | 4 x 18-inch torpedo tubes |
HMAS AE2 (originally known as AE2) was an E-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was commissioned into the RAN in 1914 and was scuttled less than a year later after being damaged during World War I.
[edit] History
AE2 was built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England and was commissioned at Portsmouth, England, on 28 February 1914 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Henry H.G.D. Stoker, RN.[1]
Accompanied by her sister ship HMAS AE1, the other of the Royal Australian Navy's first two submarines, AE1 reached Sydney from England on 24 May 1914, manned by Royal Navy officers with a mixed crew of sailors drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy.[1]
On the outbreak of war, AE2 proceeded with her sister vessel, HMAS AE1, to capture German New Guinea. In October she sailed to Suva, Fiji, and then to Sydney and Albany, WA. On 31 December 1914 she was towed by the SS Berrima as part of a troop convoy across the Indian Ocean, arriving at Suez, Egypt, 28 January 1915.
On 25 April 1915, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Henry Dacre Stoker, RAN, she became the first Allied submarine to pass through the Dardanelles Strait to attack Turkish shipping in the Sea of Marmora. After five days of being attacked and unable to find any large troop transports to attack, she was damaged 29 April in an attack by the Turkish torpedo boat Sultan Hisar in Artaki Bay, and was scuttled by her crew on April 30.[2]
In June 1998, AE2 was rediscovered in 72 metres of water.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b HMAS AE2 - HMA Ship Histories. Sea Power Centre - Australia. Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved on March 2, 2007.
- ^ a b "Navy to hunt for lost sub", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2007-02-26. Retrieved on February 26, 2007.
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