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The Australian submarine AE2 was an E-class submarine which served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War I.

AE2 was commissioned in Britain in February 1914 and arrived in Australia later that year. AE2 supported the Australian occupation of Rabaul in September 1914 and departed Australia for the Mediterranean in December 1914. On 25 April 1915 the AE2 became the first Allied submarine to pass through the Dardanelles Strait to attack Turkish shipping in the Sea of Marmora. After five days of being attacked and unable to find any large troop transports to attack she was damaged 29 April in an attack by the Turkish torpedo boat Sultan Hisar in Artaki Bay and was scuttled by her crew.