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]

At the end of 1920, she was one of eight "E" class boats of Group "J" in reserve at Rosyth under the collective command of Lieutenant Charles E. A. W. Cox, and 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]

Captains

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 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)