HMS E34
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HMS E34 was a British E-class submarine built by John Thornycroft, Woolston, Hampshire. She was launched on 27 January 1917 and commissioned in March 1917. HMS E34 sank the U-boat off Harwich in the North Sea on 10 May 1918. E34 was a mine-laying submarine. E34 was mined near the Eijerlandse Gronden, the sands between the Frisian Islands Texel and Vlieland on 20 July 1918. There were no survivors.
HMS E34 was a British E-class submarine built by John Thornycroft, Woolston, Hampshire. She was launched on 27 January 1917 and commissioned in March 1917. HMS E34 sank the U-boat off Harwich in the North Sea on 10 May 1918. E34 was a mine-laying submarine. E34 was mined near the Eijerlandse Gronden, the sands between the Frisian Islands Texel and Vlieland on 20 July 1918. There were no survivors.
Design
Like all post-E8 British E-class submarines, E34 had a displacement of at the surface and while submerged. She had a total length of and a beam of . She was powered by two Vickers eight-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines and two electric motors. The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a submerged speed of . British E-class submarines had fuel capacities of of diesel and ranges of when travelling at . E34 was capable of operating submerged for five hours when travelling at . E34 was armed with a 12-pounder QF gun mounted forward of the conning tower. Like the other E-class minelaying submarines (E24, E41, E45, E46 and E51), E34 had three 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes instead of five: two in the bow and one in the stern. Six torpedoes were carried. The two broadside torpedo tubes were replaced by mine tubes carrying a total of twenty mines. E-Class submarines had wireless systems with power ratings; in some submarines, these were later upgraded to systems by removing a midship torpedo tube. Their maximum design depth was although in service some reached depths of below . Some submarines contained Fessenden oscillator systems.
Crew
Her complement was three officers and 28 men.
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