H.M.S. E 48 (1916)

H.M.S. E 48 (1916)
Pendant Number:	E.48^[1]
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company^[2]
Launched:	2 Aug, 1916^[3]
Commissioned:	Mar, 1917^[4]
Sold:	Jul, 1928^[5]

H.M.S. E 48 was one of fifty-seven "E" class submarines completed in Britain before and during the Great War.

Service

On 17 January 1918 near Hierro Island in the Canaries, E 48 torpedoed Template:DE-U156, but the torpedo failed to explode.^[6]

By May 1920, she was one of nine (later eight) "E" class boats of Group "J" in reserve at Rosyth, tender to Dolphin.^[7]

In March, 1925 she, L 6 and L 12 comprised Group "D" Submarines in Reserve at Portsmouth under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Parkinson.^[8]

In mid-1927 she was still in Group "D", which was now under the command of Arthur Salusbury Lindsell.^[9]

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Lieutenant-Commander Frederick H. Taylor, 19 December, 1916 – February, 1918
Lieutenant in Command Douglas C. Sealy, February, 1918^[10] – July, 1919^[11]
Lieutenant Kenneth M. Fardell, July, 1919^[12] – 11 December, 1919^[13]
Lieutenant in Command Thomas I. S. Bell, May, 1920 – 30 September, 1920 (and 8 other Group "J" submarines in Reserve at Portsmouth)
Lieutenant in Command Charles E. A. W. Cox, 1 October, 1920^[14]^[15] – 20 March, 1921^[16] (and seven other "E" class boats)
Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Parkinson, 20 August, 1924^[17] (and also two "L" class boats comprising Group D in reserve at Portsmouth)
Lieutenant-Commander Arthur S. Lindsell, November, 1926^[18] (and also three other boats comprising Group D in reserve at Portsmouth)