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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''L 55''''' was one of 35 submarines of the [["L" Class Submarine (1917)|"L" class]].
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''L 55''''' was one of thirty-five [["L" Class Submarine (1917)|"L" class submarines]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].


==Service==
==Service==
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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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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 –>
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