HMS L23
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS L23 |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 29 August 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | May 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | L class submarine |
| Displacement: | 890 long tons (904 t) surfaced 1,074 long tons (1,091 t) submerged[1] |
| Length: | 228 ft (69 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) surfaced 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) submerged |
| Range: | 2,800 nmi (5,200 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced[1] |
| Complement: | 38 |
| Armament: | • 4 × 21 in (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes • 2 × 18 in (457 mm) beam torpedo tubes • 8 × 21 inch and 2 × 18 inch torpedoes • 1 × 4-inch gun[1] |
HMS L23 was a British L class submarine laid down on 29 August 1917 and moved to HM Dockyard, Chatham for completion. She was commissioned on an unknown date and like most of this class, served on the China station in the 1920s.
HMS L23 survived a heavy depth charge attack by two German destroyers in February 1940. An oil escape occurred, leading the Germans to believe that the submarine was destroyed.
L23 was decommissioned in May 1946.
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.
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