Australian submarine AE2
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| Career | Missing image Royal-Australian-Navy-Ensign.png Royal Australian Navy Ensign |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 10 February 1912 |
| Launched: | 18 June 1913 |
| Commissioned: | 28 February 1914 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Scuttled 29 April 1915 |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 600 tons (sur) 800 tons (sub) |
| Length: | 181ft |
| Beam: | 22ft 6in |
| Draught: | 12ft 6in |
| Propulsion: | |
| Speed: | 15kts/10kts |
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| Complement: | 35 |
| Armament: | 4-18" TT |
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AE2 was a E-class submarine built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England. On the outbreak of war AE2 proceeded with her sister AE1 to attack German New Guinea. In October she sailed to Suva, Fiji, and then to Sydney and Albany, WA. On 31 December 1914 she sailed 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 Hizar in Artaki Bay and was scuttled by its crew.
In June 1998 AE2 was rediscovered in 72 metres of water.
External links
- The Sub that shaped Gallipoli (http://www.divernet.com/wrecks/ae21199.htm)
- The Diary of Albert Edward Knaggs RAN of AE2 (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery.knaggs/diary.html)