| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | L1 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1930 after breaking away from her tug and drifting ashore in heavy weather. |
Started life as E 57
1923 - Reserve Flotilla. Hong Kong.
1930: Heavy weather causes L-1 to break away from her tug and drift ashore Cape Cornwall, Cornwall.
| Length overall | 231 ft 1 inch |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Draught | 13 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 891 tons (surface) |
| 1074 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 150 ft |
| Speed | Surface 17 knots (design) |
| Surface 17 to 17.5 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 10.5 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 10.5+ knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 5 ft 7 inch diameter |
| Endurance | Surface: 2800 miles at full power (design) |
| Surface: 2850 miles at full power or 3600 miles at half full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 14 miles at full power (design) | |
| Submerged: 14 miles at full power or 65 miles at 5 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 4 x 18 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 18 inch beam tubes | |
| (10 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| Complement | 3 Officers and 33 Ratings |
| Class: | 1983 - 2025: Trafalgar Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 4b |
| Fate: | |
| Decommissioned at Devonport 19-06-2014 | |
It was on a difficult and dangerous line-laying mission in the Kattegat that H.M. Submarine Seal was involved in one of the strangest, most frightening, and most heroically stirring episodes of the Second World War.
This is the full story, based on eyewitness accounts and official records, and told in dramatic detail by authors who were themselves submariners.
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| Length overall | 231 ft 1 inch |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 inch |
| Draught | 13 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 891 tons (surface) |
| 1074 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | 150 ft |
| Speed | Surface 17 knots (design) |
| Surface 17 to 17.5 knots (service) | |
| Submerged 10.5 knots (design) | |
| Submerged 10.5+ knots (service) | |
| No. of shafts | 2 |
| Propeller | 3 blades, 5 ft 7 inch diameter |
| Endurance | Surface: 2800 miles at full power (design) |
| Surface: 2850 miles at full power or 3600 miles at half full power (service) | |
| Submerged: 14 miles at full power (design) | |
| Submerged: 14 miles at full power or 65 miles at 5 knots (service) | |
| Armament | 4 x 18 inch bow tubes |
| 2 x 18 inch beam tubes | |
| (10 torpedoes carried) | |
| 1 x 4 inch gun | |
| Complement | 3 Officers and 33 Ratings |
| Class: | 1983 - 2025: Trafalgar Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 4b |
| Fate: | |
| Decommissioned at Devonport 19-06-2014 | |
It was on a difficult and dangerous line-laying mission in the Kattegat that H.M. Submarine Seal was involved in one of the strangest, most frightening, and most heroically stirring episodes of the Second World War.
This is the full story, based on eyewitness accounts and official records, and told in dramatic detail by authors who were themselves submariners.
12 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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