HMS L55 was a
British L class submarine built by
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company,
Govan,
Clyde. She was laid down on 21 September 1917 and was commissioned on 19 December 1918.
In 1919
L55 was sunk in the
Baltic Sea by
Bolshevik vessels while serving as part of the
Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The submarine was raised in 1928 and repaired by the Soviets. After being used for training, she finally was scrapped in the 1950s.
The wreck was found by Soviet minesweepers in 1927. The Soviets raised her on 11 August 1928. As the Soviets refused to allow any British warship into their waters, the remains of 34 crew members were returned on the British merchantman
Truro before transfer to
HMS Champion.
[4] The crew was buried in a communal grave at
Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery in
Portsmouth on 7 September 1928.
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