Allied Warships

HMS L 26 (N 26)

Submarine of the L class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSubmarine
ClassL 
PennantN 26 
Built byVickers (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 
OrderedDec 1916 
Laid down 1917 
Launched29 May 1919 
Commissioned12 Oct 1926 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Completed at Chatham Dockyard (Chatham, U.K.).

Expended as a target of the Canadian coast on 25 September 1945.

 

Commands listed for HMS L 26 (N 26)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Frank Woodgate Lipscomb, OBE, RN19 Apr 193811 Mar 1940
2Lt. Patrick Lainson Field, RN11 Mar 1940Jul 1940
3Lt. John Bertram de Betham Kershaw, RNJul 1940Oct 1940
4Lt. Ronald Sycamore Frost, RNROct 19405 Jan 1941
5Lt. Cecil Gordon, RN5 Jan 194121 Feb 1941
6Lt. Stephen Lynch Conway Maydon, RN21 Feb 194124 Apr 1941
7Lt. Michael Beauchamp St. John, RN24 Apr 19411 Oct 1941
8Lt. Geoffrey Deryck Nicholson Milner, RN1 Oct 194110 Jan 1942
9Lt. Henry Denys Verschoyle, DSC, RN10 Jan 19427 Jun 1942
10Lt. Cyril Astell Pardoe, RNR7 Jun 194229 Jul 1942
11Lt. Henry Denys Verschoyle, DSC, RN29 Jul 19422 Aug 1943
12Lt. Andrew George Prideaux, DSC, RN2 Aug 194314 Oct 1944
13Lt. Richard Thomas Sallis, DSC, RN14 Oct 1944

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