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With its half-English, half-Australian crew, AE2, as the name implies, was one of two submarines built in England and placed in the service of the Royal Australian Navy before the First World War. Her sister ship, the AE1, was lost with all hands off Rabaul in September 1914 in mysterious circumstances.


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HMAS AE2 was an E-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy . One of two submarines ordered for the fledgling navy, AE2 was built by Vickers Armstrong in England and was commissioned into the RAN in 1914. Together with her sister submarine, HMAS AE1, the boat then sailed to Australia in what was, at the time, the longest voyage ever undertaken by a submarine.


Submarines of the United States Navy, Subs from around the World War II era, Royalty Free

The story of AE2 "the Silent ANZAC" is a story of great bravery and determination by the 32 Australian and British crew in the submarine AE2, sent in to support the ANZAC landings 94 years ago.


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Using some of the submarine's precious compressed air, the excess water that had leaked into the dive tanks since AE2's rough groundings earlier that morning was expelled. Slowly, AE2 inched.


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AE2 surfaced with a 'whoosh' and Stoker quickly flooded the tanks in order to dive again, hoping this time to dive correctly. But luck had seemed to finally desert AE2. Just as it was about to submerge, three shells hit the vessel. Water was flooding the engine room.


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HMAS AE2 (originally known as AE2) was an E-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of two submarines ordered for the fledgling navy, AE2 was built by Vickers Armstrong in England and was commissioned into the RAN in 1914.


1915 submarine AE2 possibly entering the port of Mudros a… Flickr

A team of Australian and Turkish engineers, scientists and divers have captured underwater vision from inside Australia's first wartime submarine, the AE2. The World War I submarine was the first Allied vessel to penetrate the mine-filled Dardanelles, the narrow strait separating Gallipoli from the mainland of Asia.


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AE2 was one of two Australian submarines to participate in World War I. It gained notoriety for penetrating the Dardanelles, a narrow and well-defended Turkish waterway that became a graveyard for a number of British and French warships — including two submarines — during an ill-fated naval campaign in March 1915.


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The AE2, the Royal Australian Navy's second submarine, was built in the United Kingdom and commissioned there on 28 February 1914 After commissioning, AE2 accompanied by AE1, sailed to Australia crewed jointly by British and Australian sailors, arriving at Sydney in May 1914.


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Just as the Gallipoli landings on 25 April were about to commence, AE2 was tasked with trying to get through to create havoc among Turkish shipping in the Sea of Marmara and assist with delaying.


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in his diary that the submarine was 'the sole escort for 20 transports with the exception of a few which were armed with 4in guns.'ix. Originally headed for the Mediterranean, AE2 was diverted by the Admiralty to join British B class submarines patrolling the Dardanelles Straits, arriving in early February. Here, there were various unsuccessful


Australia’s first submarines, Eclass vessels known as HMAS AE1 and HMAS AE2, were commissioned

His Majesty's Australian Submarine AE2 was launched in the yard of Vickers Ltd at Barrow-in-Furness England on 18 June 1913. She commissioned at Portsmouth on 28 February 1914 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Henry Hugh Gordon "Dacre" Stoker, RN.


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His Majesty's Australian Submarine AE2 was launched in the yard of Vickers Ltd at Barrow-in-Furness, England on 18 June 1913 by Mr WH Wharton. She commissioned at Portsmouth on 28 February 1914 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Henry Hugh Gordon Dacre Stoker, RN.


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A lucky turn of fate. Henry Kinder was born in Kogarah, Sydney, in 1891. He joined the colonial navy aged 17, entering the submarine service four years later, in 1912. Two E-Class submarines had been ordered and constructed in Britain for the new fleet that was to be the backbone of Australia's own naval force - the Royal Australian Navy.


A World War II submarine that was missing for 75 years has been found off Okinawa, Japan WSVN

These three proposed submarines were to be the fairly small 'C' class, but later it was decided that two 'E' class, which were twice the size of the 'C's' would suit our conditions better, and late in 1910 tenders were accepted for the construction, at Barrow-in-Furness, of AE1 and AE2 (the 'A' being for Australia).


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The Silent Anzac - inside the submarine AE2 - YouTube This documentary film by the AE2 Commemorative Foundation reveals some of the first underwater footage taken of the interior of submarine.