Large Unique Original WW1 Royal Navy HM Submarine E.1 Wall Plaque Crest Shield
Celebrating the building / comissoning of the Submarine at Chatham dockyard in 1913.
Likely to be one of a kind.
Hand painted and made from plaster, with hanging hook
Standard size commemorative wooden ship Plaque shown alongside for scale only - wooden Plaque not supplied.
Size 30 x 28 cm
HMS E1 (laid down as HMSD9) was a British E-class submarine that was built by Chatham Dockyard. E1 was laid down on 14 February 1911. She was launched on 9 November 1912 and was commissioned on 6 May 1913. During World War I she was part of the British submarine flotilla in the Baltic.
On 30 July 1915, she torpedoed and sank the German auxiliary minesweeper Aachen east-northeast of stergarn, Gotland, Sweden. On 19 August 1915, she torpedoed and damaged the German battlecruiser Moltke (23,000 tons) during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga.
E1's service ended on 3 April 1918 outside Helsingfors (now Helsinki), 1.5 nautical miles (2.8km) off Harmaja Light in the Gulf of Finland. She was scuttled by her crew to avoid seizure by advancing German forceswhich had landed nearby.
