HMS E42
{{short description|Submarine of the Royal Navy}}
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HMS E42 was a British E-class submarine built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was launched on 22 October 1915 and commissioned in July 1916. She served during the First World War, hitting with a torpedo the battlecruiser {{SMS|Moltke}} on 25 April 1918 and making an unsuccessful attack on U-92 on 1 July 1918.Koerver, Hans Joachim. Room 40: German Naval Warfare 1914-1918. Vol II., The Fleet in Being (Steinbach, Germany: LIS Reinisch, 2009).
E42 was sold for scrap at Poole on 6 September 1922.
Design
Like all post-E8 British E-class submarines, E42 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|adj=on}} Vickers eight-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines and two {{convert|420|hp|adj=on}} 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|accessdate=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}}. E42 was capable of operating submerged for five hours when travelling at {{convert|5|kn|km/h mph}}.
E42 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|adj=on}} power ratings; in some submarines, these were later upgraded to {{convert|3|kW|adj=on}} 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.
Notes
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References
- Koerver, Hans Joachim. Room 40: German Naval Warfare 1914-1918. Vol II., The Fleet in Being. Steinbach, Germany: LIS Reinisch, 2009.
- {{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 }}
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Category:British E-class submarines of the Royal Navy
Category:Ships built on the River Mersey