Royal Navy Photograph - HMS E14 - Submarine - WW1 Victoria Cross Captains - 1918

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5 x 3 ¼ inch Photograph of WW1 Submarine HMS E14 1918 Condition: Very Good HMS E14 was a British E class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness.During the First World War, two of her captains were awarded the Victoria Cross, and a large number of her officers and men also decorated. E14 took part in an operation to penetrate the Sea of Marmara. She successfully dived beneath the minefields and broke into the Sea of Marmara on 27 April 1915. She quickly sank the Turkish gunboat Nurel Bahr, sinking 200 tons on 1 May. She then went on to damage the minelayer Peik I Shevket sinking 1014 tons in a torpedo attack. On 3 May she torpedoed transport ship Gul Djemal with 4,000 soldiers onboard. Upon her return, her captain, Lieutenant Commander Edward Courtney Boyle received the Victoria Cross; Lieutenant Edward Geldard Stanley and Acting Lieutenant Reginald Wilfred Lawrence were both awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and all the ratings were awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Later in her career, her new captain, Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Saxton White was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Dardanelles. With the ex-Goeben crippled after the Battle of Imbros, E14 was dispatched to finish off the Turkish battlecruiser when repeated air attacks failed to destroy her. Finding the Goeben read more

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