HMS E10
{{short description|Submarine of the Royal Navy}}
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HMS E10 was a British E class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 10 July 1912 and was commissioned on 10 March 1914. She costed £105,700. E10 was lost in the North Sea on or around 18 January 1915. E10 had sailed in company of HMS E5 from Yarmouth on 18 January 1915 for a patrol off Heligoland. She never returned from that patrol and was listed as officially lost with all hands on 21 January 1915.{{Cite web |title=HMS E10 – The Submarine Family |url=https://submarinefamily.uk/submarines/hms-e10/ |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=submarinefamily.uk}}
Design and construction
Like all post-E8 British E-class submarines, E10 had a displacement of {{convert|662|LT|t}} at the surface and {{convert|807|LT|t}} while submerged. She had a total length of {{convert|180|ft|m}}{{cite book|author1=Innes McCartney|author2=Tony Bryan|title=British Submarines of World War I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JWFapIxWZSUC&pg=PA11|date=20 February 2013|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=978-1-4728-0035-0|pages=11–12}} and a beam of {{convert|22|ft|8.5|in}}. She was powered by two {{convert|800|hp}} Vickers eight-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines and two {{convert|420|hp}} electric motors.Akerman, P. (1989). Encyclopaedia of British submarines 1901–1955. p.150. Maritime Books. {{ISBN|1-904381-05-7}}{{cite web|url=http://www.csubmarine.org/html/class/eclass.html|title=E Class|publisher=Chatham Submarines|access-date=20 August 2015|archive-date=13 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813023119/http://csubmarine.org/html/class/eclass.html|url-status=dead}} The submarine had a maximum surface speed of {{convert|16|kn|km/h mph}} and a submerged speed of {{convert|10|kn|km/h mph}}. British E-class submarines had fuel capacities of {{convert|50|LT|t}} of diesel and ranges of {{convert|3255|mi|km nmi}} when travelling at {{convert|10|kn|km/h mph}}. E10 was capable of operating submerged for five hours when travelling at {{convert|5|kn|km/h mph}}.
As with most of the early E class boats, E10 was not fitted with a deck gun during construction, and it is not known whether one was fitted later, as was the case with boats up to E19. She had five 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, two in the bow, one either side amidships, and one in the stern; a total of 10 torpedoes were carried.
E-Class submarines had wireless systems with {{convert|1|kW}} power ratings; in some submarines, these were later upgraded to {{convert|3|kW}} systems by removing a midship torpedo tube. Their maximum design depth was {{convert|100|ft}} although in service some reached depths of below {{convert|200|ft}}. Some submarines contained Fessenden oscillator systems.
E10 laid down by Vickers at their Barrow shipyard on 10 July 1912 , was launched on 29 November 1913 and completed on 10 August 1914.{{harvnb|Harrison|1979|loc= Appendix 1, p. App. I.5}}
Crew
Her complement was three officers and 28 men.
Service
On 5 September 1914, E10, together with {{HMS|D1||2}} and {{HMS|D7||2}} left Harwich to patrol in the Helgoland Bight with the hope of intercepting German patrol vessels.{{harvnb|Naval Staff Monograph No. 24|1924|p=36}} On 3 November 1914, German battlecruisers and cruisers attacked Yarmouth. E10 and the submarines {{HMS|D3||2}} and {{HMS|D5||2}} were in Yarmouth harbour and were ordered out when gunfire was heard. D5, however, struck a mine and was sunk, and D3 and E10 were recalled.{{harvnb|Massie|2007|pp=310–311}}{{harvnb|Naval Staff Monograph No. 28|1925|p=10}}
References
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Bibliography
- Akerman, P. (1989). Encyclopaedia of British submarines 1901–1955. p. 150. Maritime Books. {{ISBN|1-904381-05-7}}
- {{cite book|url=http://rnsubs.co.uk/dits-bits/br-3043.html|title=The Development of HM Submarines From Holland No. 1 (1901) to Porpoise (1930) (BR3043) |last=Harrison |first=A. N. |date=January 1979 |publisher=Ministry of Defence |via=RN Subs |access-date=4 March 2025}}
- {{cite book |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Robert |title=Jane's submarines : war beneath the waves from 1776 to the present day |date=2001 |publisher=HarperCollins |location=London |isbn=9780007105588}}
- {{cite book|last=Massie|first=Robert K. |title=Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the War at Sea| year=2007|publisher=Vintage Books|location=London|isbn=978-0-099-52378-9}}
- {{cite book |title=Monograph No. 24: Home Waters—Part II: September and October 1914 |series=Naval Staff Monographs (Historical) |volume=XI |year=1924 |publisher=The Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Naval-Staff-Monographs-Vol.XI_opt.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806153118/http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Naval-Staff-Monographs-Vol.XI_opt.pdf |archive-date=6 August 2019|ref={{Harvid|Naval Staff Monograph No. 24|1924}} }}
- {{cite book|title= Monograph No. 28: Home Waters Part III: From November 1914 to the end of January 1915|series=Naval Staff Monographs (Historical)|volume= XII|year=1925|publisher=Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division|url=http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Naval-Staff-Monographs-Vol.XII_opt.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806153309/http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Naval-Staff-Monographs-Vol.XII_opt.pdf |archive-date=6 August 2019 |ref={{harvid|Naval Staff Monograph No. 28|1925}} }}
External links
- [http://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/what-we-have/memorial-chapel/submarine-losses?start=3 'Submarine losses 1904 to present day' - Royal Navy Submarine Museum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925133842/http://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/what-we-have/memorial-chapel/submarine-losses?start=3 |date=25 September 2015 }}
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Category:British E-class submarines of the Royal Navy
Category:Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness
Category:World War I submarines of the United Kingdom
Category:World War I shipwrecks in the North Sea
Category:Lost submarines of the United Kingdom