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Latest revision as of 19:36, 6 April 2018

H.M.S. L 55 (1918)
Pendant Number: L.55[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: Jan/Feb, 1917[3]
Launched: 21 Sep, 1918[4]
Commissioned: Dec, 1918[5]
Sunk: 9 Jun, 1919[6]
Fate: off Kronstadt

H.M.S. L 55 was one of thirty-five "L" class submarines completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. pp. 82, 90.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 94.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 94.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 94.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 94.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 94.
  7. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 149. The day of month is wrongly recorded as 4 there.

Bibliography


"L" Class Submarine
L 1 Group
  L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4  
  L 5 L 6 L 7 L 8  
L 9 Group
L 9 L 10 L 15 L 16 L 18
L 19 L 20 L 21 L 22 L 23
L 24 L 26 L 27 L 32 L 33
L 9 Group Minelayers
L 11 L 12 L 14 L 17 L 25
L 50 Group
L 52 L 53 L 54 L 55 L 56
  L 69 L 71  
<– "K" Class Submarines (UK) "M" Class –>