H.M.A.S. AE2 SubmarinePrint Page
A monument commemorates the crew of the H.M.A.S. AE2 submarine which penetrated the Dardenelles Strait during the troop landings at ANZAC Cove in April 1915. The memorial contains an etched plaque sculptured by Ross Bastiaan detailing the history of the submarine at Gallipoli during World War One.
HMAS AE2 was the first Allied submarine to penetrate the Dardanelles in 1915 as part of the Gallipoli Campaign, on the very morning the ANZAC soldiers landed at Anzac Cove. After five hectic days "running amok", she finally fell to Turkish gunfire and was scuttled. Her crew was captured and spent the rest of the war as Turkish POWs. AE2 lay, unseen, until in 1998 she was discovered, intact, in 73m of water in the Sea of Marmara.
|Address:||Garden Island Naval Base, Garden Island, 2011|
|GPS Coordinates:||Lat: -33.858408|
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
|Actual Event STart Date:||25-April-1915|
|Actual Event End Date:||30-April-1915|
|Monument Designer:||Ross Bastiaan|
|Actual Monument Dedication Date:||Wednesday 22nd April, 2009|
AUSTRALIA`S SUBMARINE AE2
(History of AE2 at Gallipoli)
DEDICATED TO THE CREW OF HMAS AE2
DEPARTED GARDEN ISLAND
19 DECEMBER 1914
BOUND FOR THE DARDANELLES
JOINTLY UNVEILED BY
THE HONOURABLE WARREN SNOWDON MP
MINISTER FOR DEFENCE SCIENCE AND PERSONNEL
H.E.N MURAT ERSAVCI
AMBASSADOR FOR THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
22 APRIL 2009
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