Submarine Explosion 1933 - Campbeltown Loch

[Kintyre Forum News]

I was sent this interesting article from the old London Times (Oct 1933) from a friend who received it from an antique colector who he knows in the packing for some china!

Another piece of history worth sharing.

[Ticketty Boo!]

Type:
L Class
Group Two

Pennant No.:
L.26
26L
N26


Laid Down:
1917
Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness.
(Completed by H.M. Naval Dockyard, Chatham.

Commissioned:
1919
Not known at present.

Commander:
Not known at present.
Not known at present.

Complement:
39
Officers and Ratings.

Service Career:
1941 - 2nd Flotilla.
1940 - 1942
Rosyth.
Training submarine.


Sent to Canada in 1944 to assist in Anti - Submarine training to the convoy escort group.

Fate:
Scrapped in Canada in 1945.

[hugh]

fascinating.