HM Ships from As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships for 1919

Index

Summary and Table
"R" Class
"M" Class
"L" Class
"K" Class
"J" Class
"H" Class
"G" Class
"F" Class
"E" Class

As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919

British Navy - Submarines

" L " Classes (23 * Completed ? - About 14 * Building ? ) = 37 * ?

Page 120

L 20

L 55

19* Vickers: L 1 (ex E 57); L 2 (ex E 58); L 3 (all 1917 ): L 4, L 11, L 12, L 14, L 17- 20 (all 1918), L 21, L 23 (1919), L 24 - 27, L 32 (completing 1919 ?).
2* Swan Hunter: L 5 (1918), L 33 (1919).
2* Beardmore: L 6 (1918), L 69 (1918).
2* Cammell Laird: L 7, L 8 (both 1917).
2* Denny : L 9 (1918). L 54 (1919).
5* Fairfield : L 15 (1917), L 16 (1918), L 36, L 55, L 56 (all !919).
2* Pembroke D.Y.: L 34, L 66 (1919 - 20 ?).
2* Armstrong Whitworth: L 52, L 53 (both 1919).
1 Scotts: L 71 (1919).

*All totals liable to revision. Some of the boats launched 1919 may be abandoned.

Following boats reported stopped 1918:

21 † boats stopped: L 28-31 (Vickers), L 35 (Pembroke D.Y.), L 50, 51, 63, 64, 65, (Cammell Laird), L 67, 68 (Armstrong), L 57 - 62 (Fairfield), L 70 (Beardmore), L 72 (Scotts), L 73 (Denny).

14 boats never ordered : L 13, L 37 - 49.

† Liable to revision. Some may be completed.

Design and type of hull not known; reported to be a wing-tank type designed by Admiralty.
Dimensions: 222 (p.p.) 231 (o.a.) x 23.5 x 13.75 feet.
Guns : 1 - 3 inch AA. or 4 inch, but minelayers may have no guns.
Torpedo tube: in earlier boats, up to (about) L 9, 6, viz., four bow, two beam, all 21 inch: boats above L 9, 6 - 21 inch, all in bows.
Mine-laying boats numbered under L 9 have no beam tubes - only four bow - 21 inch.
Machinery: 2 sets 12 - cylinder solid injection Vickers type, but others may have Cammellaird-Fullager, Armstrong, and other types. Oil: 76 tons. Other details as Table.

Notes.-The "L Class" is in a highly complex state, owing to the variations in build, giving ten or more types by appearance. Further uncertainty is introduced by inadequate information regarding boats whose construction has been stopped. All built under Emergency War Programme, but funds for completion of some boats will fall within post-war Navy Estimates. In dimensions, H.P., speed, &c., these boats have a marked resemblance to the 1914-18 German ocean-going Submarines. Minelaying boats not known exactly, but unverified reports say L 2, 14, 17 are equipped for sowing mines.

War Losses.- L 10.

Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships for 1919 - Page 122

^ back to top ^