HMS E36
{{short description|Submarine of the Royal Navy}}
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HMS E36 was an E-class submarine built by John Brown, Clydebank for the Royal Navy. She was laid down on 7 January 1915 and was commissioned on 16 November 1916.
E36 was sunk in a collision with {{HMS|E43||2}} off Harwich in the North Sea on 19 January 1917. There were no survivors. On 15 September 2013, Dutch fisherman Hans Eelman found a large metal object near the island of Texel, using sonar. The object was thought to be the wreck of a submarine of the E-type and was thought to be E36, but later reports proved it was not.
Design
Like all post-E8 British E-class submarines, E36 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. 149–150. Maritime Books. {{ISBN|1-904381-05-7}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=boO7WGL21EQC&dq=British+submarines+deck+gun+1901%E2%80%931955.&pg=PA330]{{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}}. E36 was capable of operating submerged for five hours when travelling at {{convert|5|kn|km/h mph}}.
E36 was armed with a QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun QF gun mounted forward of the conning tower. 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.
Crew
Her complement was three officers and 28 men.
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book | last = Hutchinson | first = Robert | title = Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day | url = https://archive.org/details/janessubmarinesw0000hutc | url-access = registration | year = 2001 | location = London | publisher = HarperCollins | isbn = 978-0-00-710558-8 | oclc = 53783010 }}
External links
- {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120084523/http://www.noordhollandsdagblad.nl/stadstreek/denhelder/article24570173.ece/Duikboot-WO1-gevonden-bij-Texel?lref=vpll |date=20 November 2016 }} Article: World War I submarine found near Texel
- [http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/3588223/gevonden-wrak-geen-onderzeeer-woi.html Article: sunken vessel near Texel not submarine after all.]
- [http://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/what-we-have/memorial-chapel/submarine-losses?start=6 'Submarine losses 1904 to present day' - Royal Navy Submarine Museum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925133858/http://www.submarine-museum.co.uk/what-we-have/memorial-chapel/submarine-losses?start=6 |date=25 September 2015 }}
{{British E class submarine}}
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Category:British E-class submarines of the Royal Navy
Category:Ships built on the River Clyde
Category:World War I submarines of the United Kingdom
Category:World War I shipwrecks in the North Sea
Category:Royal Navy ship names
Category:Maritime incidents in 1917
Category:Submarines sunk in collisions
Category:1917 disasters in the United Kingdom
Category:British submarine accidents