HMS L69

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Career

Name:	HMS L69
Builder:	William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir
Laid down:	7 July 1917
Fate:	Sold for scrapping, February 1939
General characteristics
Class & type:	L class submarine
Displacement:	960 long tons (975 t) surfaced 1,150 long tons (1,168 t) submerged^[1]
Length:	230 ft 6 in (70.26 m)
Beam:	23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Speed:	17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) surfaced 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) submerged
Range:	4,800 nmi (8,900 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) surfaced^[1]
Complement:	44
Armament:	• 6 × 21 in (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes • 12 × 21 inch torpedoes • 2 × 4-inch guns^[1]

HMS L69 was a British L class submarine built by William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir. She was laid down on 7 July 1917 and then moved to HM Dockyard, Rosyth and commissioned on an unknown date.

HMS L69 was sold in February 1939.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "L Class Submarines". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2010.

Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010.

v t e British L-class submarine

L1 class	L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8

L9 class	L9 L10 L11 L12 L14 L15 L16 L17 L18 L19 L20 L21 L22 L23 L24 L25 L26 L27 L33

L50 class	L52 L53 L54 L55 L56 L69 L71

Only submarines that were completed are listed. List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

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