HMS L52
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Name: | HMS L52 |
Builder: | Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne |
Laid down: | 16 May 1917 |
Fate: | Sold for scrap, September 1935 |
General characteristics | |
Class and 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 L52 was a British L class submarine built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. She was laid down on 16 May 1917 and was commissioned on an unknown date.
HMS L52 was sold for scrap in September 1935, but was wrecked off of Barry, South Wales.
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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