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Revision as of 14:20, 6 February 2018

H.M.S. L 8 (1917)
Pendant Number: L.8[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Ordered: May, 1916[3]
Launched: 7 Jul, 1917[4]
Commissioned: Mar, 1918[5]
Sold: Oct, 1930[6]
H.M.S. L 8 was one of thirty-five "L" class submarines completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

In 1925, she was part of Fourth Submarine Flotilla on the China Station. A Lieutenant Thomas Eric Kirwan Donaldson is listed with her, but not expressly as being "in command".[7]

She re-commissioned on 27 March, 1925 and in August, Henry Berwick Crane was placed in command.[8]

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. 93.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 93.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 93.
  5. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 21. p. 40.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 93.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 250.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 250.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 799.
  10. ↑ Month is perhaps wrong (legibility).
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 250.

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  
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