page_title: XE-class submarine
section_title: List of  XE Craft
hierarchical_section_title: XE-class submarine / List of  XE Craft
caption_attribution_description: English: British XE class submarine built 1944. Number XE8 Expunger. Displayed at Chatham Dockyard museum. Used for target practice and sunk 1952. Raised 1973. Stern.
context_page_description: The XE-class submarines were a series of six midget submarines that were built for the Royal Navy during 1944. They were an improved version of the X class used in the attack on the German battleship Tirpitz.
  They carried a crew of four, typically a lieutenant in command, with a sub-lieutenant as deputy, an engine room artificer in charge of the mechanical side and a seaman or leading-seaman. At least one of them was qualified as a diver.
  In addition to the two side charges, they carried around six 20-pound limpet mines which were attached to the target by the diver.
  They and their depot ship HMS Bonaventure arrived at Labuan in July 1945. Four of them managed to take part in operations before the war ended.
context_section_description: First group
  XE1 — built by Thomas Broadbent and Sons, used in Operation Struggle, scrapped 1945
  XE2 — built by Thomas Broadbent and Sons, scrapped 1945
  XE3 — built by Thomas Broadbent and Sons, used in Operation Struggle, scrapped 1945
  XE4 "Exciter" — built by Thomas Broadbent and Sons, used in Operation Sabre, scrapped 1945
  XE5 — built by Thomas Broadbent and Sons, used in Operation Foil, scrapped 1945
  XE6 — built by Thomas Broadbent and Sons, scrapped 1945
  XE7 — built by Thomas Broadbent and Sons, scrapped 1952
  XE8 "Expunger" — built by Broadbent, sunk as target 1952, recovered 1973 and preserved at Chatham Historic Dockyard, on loan from the Imperial War Museum
  XE9 — built by Markham, scrapped 1952
  XE10 — built by Markham, cancelled incomplete 1945
  Second group
  XE11 — built by Marshall, collided with boom defence vessel in Loch Striven after drifting out of her exercise area and lost 6 March 1945. Three crew were killed in the accident but two managed to escape. The boat was later salvaged.
  XE12 — built by Marshall, cannibalised for spares 1952
  Third group
  with minor improvements, built 1954-5. See
  X51 Stickleback - to Swedish Navy as Spiggen.  Now on display at Scottish Submarine Heritage Centre, Helensburgh.
  X52 Shrimp
  X53 Sprat - to US Navy
  X54 Minnow
caption: XE8 stern
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