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Revision as of 14:38, 24 May 2013

The Royal Navy's "L" Class Submarines were completed between November, 1917 and some well after the war.[1]

Torpedoes

L 1 Group:

  • six 18-in tubes (4 forward, 2 broadside), ten torpedoes

L 9 Group:

  • four 21-in bow, eight torpedoes
  • two 18-in broadside, two torpedoes

L 9 Group Minelayers:

  • four 21-in bow
  • 16 mines (only 14 in L 25)

L 50 Group:

  • six 21-in forward, 12 torpedoes

Guns

Initially, L 1:

  • one 3-in H.A. gun on disappearing mounting

Initially, L 2 to L 8:

  • unknown (varied)

Eventually, all L 1 Group

  • one 4-in

L 9 Group:

  • one 4-in gun on foredeck or on bridge (allegedly from L 12 onward, but one source indicates L 9)[2]

L 50 Group:

  • two 4-in Q.F. on bridge level

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 93, 94.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. drawing on p. 93.

Bibliography

  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


"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  
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