HMS E8

Scuttled

Royal Navy

TypeSubmarine
ClassE
WarFirst World War

E-class submarine; one of Commodore Keyes's submarines at Heligoland Bight in August 1914, the bait in the trap. Sent to the Baltic, where she sank the cruiser Prinz Adalbert in October 1915; scuttled off Helsinki in April 1918 to keep her from the Germans.

Career

28 August 1914