Construction and Acquisition
AE2 had a displacement of 750 tons when on the surface. Electricity for the propulsion system was generated by two 8-cylinder diesels.
AE2 was laid down on 10 February 1912 by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England, and launched on 18 June 1913. She was commissioned into the RAN at Portsmouth, England, on 28 February 1914 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Henry H.G.D. Stoker, RN.
Accompanied by AE1, her sister boat and the other of the RAN's first two submarines, AE2 reached Sydney from England on 24 May 1914, manned by Royal Navy (RN) officers with a mixed crew of sailors drawn from the RN and RAN. According to naval historian Tom Frame, the delivery voyage was at the time "the longest submarine transit in history".
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