HMS E19

HMS E19 was a submarine of the E-Class of the Royal Navy, which was in the First World War in the Baltic Sea in use.

The E19 was part of a comprehensive 46 boats slightly improved sub-group of U- boats of the E-Class, representing the most powerful and latest average U - boat type in the Royal Navy at the start of the First World War.

After the commissioning, as well as the achievement of operational readiness, the boat moved under the command of Lt. Cdr. Francis Cromie along with the sister boat HMS E13 in August 1915 the Sound into the Baltic Sea, there to support the Russian Baltic Fleet and to fight the German commercial traffic by the Scandinavian countries.

So four merchant ships could the boat on October 11, 1915 within a short time south of the island of Öland sink. The most spectacular success of the boat was the sinking of the light cruiser SMS Undine on November 7, 1915 north of Cape Arkona.

After organizing a Geleitzugwesens for German merchant ships from 1916, the success declined significantly. The boat was interrupted by the seasonal icing period of the Baltic Sea, to the self-absorption due to the German intervention Finland until April 1918 in use.

On April 4, 1918 HMS E19 was after the occupation of Helsingfors by the German Baltic Division along with three sister ships 1.5 nm south of the lighthouse of Harmaja scuttled in order not to let it fall into German hands. The wreck was not lifted.