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AE2 Australian submarine arrival at Portsmouth to prepare for voyage to Australia.

Photograph of the Australian submarine AE2 with crew on deck at Portsmouth, 1914. Inscription reads `A.E.2 Australian submarine arrival at Portsmouth/ to prepare for voyage to Australia - S.Cribb.S'sea'.

 

AE2 was the first submarine to penetrate the Dardanelles Strait. From 25 April to 30 April, 1915, it played a hectic game of cat and mouse with Ottoman forces causing confusion and raising alarm by creating the illusion that other Allied vessels had penetrated the Strait. AE2 was eventually sunk by its commanding officer to avoid capture and the crew spent the next three and half years as prisoners of war in Turkey during which time three of them died.

 

Object no. 00015862

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Uploaded on December 19, 2012
Taken sometime in 1914