{"id":1573,"date":"2009-10-23T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2015-02-28T10:21:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:21:01","slug":"wreck-of-ww1-british-submarine-found-in-baltic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/wreck-of-ww1-british-submarine-found-in-baltic\/","title":{"rendered":"Wreck of WW1 British submarine found in Baltic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8321516.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a> reports on a recent discovery by the Australian descendent of the only survivor of the sinking:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The wreck of a British naval submarine lost for more than 90 years has been found in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>HMS E18 &#8211; with its complement of three officers and 28 ratings &#8211; went out on patrol in May 1916 and was never seen again.<\/p>\n<p>The submarine was one of a handful sent to the Baltic during World War I by Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, to disrupt German shipments of iron ore from Sweden and support the Russian navy.<\/p>\n<p>E18 left its base in the Russian port of Reval &#8211; now Tallinn, the capital of Estonia &#8211; on the evening of 25 May 1916 and headed west.<\/p>\n<p>The following day she was reported to have engaged and torpedoed a German ship.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, possibly 2 June, she is believed to have struck a German mine and sunk with all hands. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News reports on a recent discovery by the Australian descendent of the only survivor of the sinking: The wreck of a British naval submarine lost for more than 90 years has been found in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Estonia. HMS E18 &#8211; with its complement of three officers and 28 ratings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5],"tags":[1021,30,364,365],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","tag-balticsea","tag-navy","tag-submarine","tag-wreck"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30467,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/30467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}