HMS L27

Career
Name: HMS L27
Builder: Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down: 30 January 1918
Fate: Broken up, 1944
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
• 16 × mines
• 1 × 4-inch gun[1]

HMS L27 was a British L class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow. She was laid down on 30 January 1918 before being moved and completed at HM Dockyard, Sheerness and commissioned on an unknown date.

L27 was converted into a training boat at Portsmouth before being broken up in Canada in 1944.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "L Class Submarines". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2010.