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L 23

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)/ Chatham Dockyard (Medway)
Build Group: L2
Fate: Sold 1946.
Foundered off Nova Scotia May 1946 on way to shipbreakers.
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Commanders
1924: Lieutenant Commander   Edward Arthur Aylmer DSC
1930: Lieutenant Commander   James Godfrey Wood Deneys
1933: Commander   George Arthur Wallis Voelcker
1936: Lieutenant   David Alexander Fraser
1940: Lieutenant   Leslie Frederick Lewis Hill
1940: Lieutenant   Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford
1940: Lieutenant   Robert Malcolm Galloway
1940: Lieutenant   Francis John Brooks
1941: Lieutenant   Thomas Noel Catlow
1941: Lieutenant   Thomas Erasmus Barlow
1942: Lieutenant   Leslie Frederick Lewis Hill
1942: Lieutenant   John Stirling Bridger
1942: Lieutenant   Alan Hamilton Barnett Anderson DSC
1942: Lieutenant   Michael Geoffrey Rawson Lumby MID
1942: Lieutenant   Ernest John Donaldson Turner DSO DSC
1942: Lieutenant   Richard Molyneux Favell
1942: Lieutenant   Robert Julian Clutterbuck
1942: Lieutenant   Robert Boyd DSC MID
1943: Lieutenant   David Swanston DSC
1943: Lieutenant   Huston Roe Murray
1944: Lieutenant   Hugh Seaburne May
1944: Lieutenant   Richard Thomas Sallis DSC

1944 was sent to Canada for training purposes.

In October 1945, L23 was the last L boat to be taken out of service 28 years after she was laid down - thus reflecting the success of the class.

Events

 29-08-1917   Laid Down
 01-07-1919   Launched
 31-10-1924   Completed
 22-02-1943   While serving as A/S training target ship on Canada's east coast, HMS L 23 was sent to Philadelphia, USA for a refit.
 21-06-1945   HMS L23 paid off
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