HMS E26

Career
Name:	HMS E26
Ordered:	29 April 1914
Builder:	William Beardmore, Dalmuir
Laid down:	November 1914
Launched:	11 November 1915
Commissioned:	3 October 1915
Fate:	Lost, 6 July 1916
General characteristics
Class & type:	E class submarine
Displacement:	662 long tons (673 t) surfaced 807 long tons (820 t) submerged
Length:	181 ft (55 m)
Beam:	15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion:	2 × 1,600 hp (1,193 kW) diesel 2 × 840 hp (626 kW) electric 2 screws
Speed:	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) surfaced 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) submerged
Range:	3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced 65 nmi (120 km) at 5 kn (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) surfaced
Complement:	30
Armament:	• 5 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes (2 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern) • 1 × 12-pounder gun

HMS E26 was a British E class submarine built by William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir. She was, along with the future E25, one of a pair of submarines ordered by the Ottoman Navy on 29 April 1914, but was taken over by the Royal Navy and assigned the E26 name. She was laid down in November 1914, launched on 11 November 1915, and was commissioned on 3 October 1915.

HMS E26 was lost in the North Sea on 6 July 1916. There were no survivors.

References

• Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 88, 392. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8. OCLC 12119866. 
• Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Say. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010. 

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