| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow)/ Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
| Build Group: | L2 |
| Fate: | Sold 1946. Foundered off Nova Scotia May 1946 on way to shipbreakers. |
| 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.
| 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 |
| Class: | 2010 - Present: Astute Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 5 |
In Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter Christopher Drew reveal an extraordinary underwater world. Showing for the first time how the American Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables, Sontag and Drew unveil new evidence that the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared with all hands at the height of the Cold War.
They disclose for the first time details of the bitter war between the CIA and the Navy and how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions. They tell the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start.
And Sontag and Drew reveal how the Navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau. Stretching from the years immediately after World War II to the post-Cold War new reality of warfare, Blind Mans Bluff reads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference - everything in it is true.
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| Class: | 2010 - Present: Astute Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 5 |
In Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter Christopher Drew reveal an extraordinary underwater world. Showing for the first time how the American Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables, Sontag and Drew unveil new evidence that the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared with all hands at the height of the Cold War.
They disclose for the first time details of the bitter war between the CIA and the Navy and how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions. They tell the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start.
And Sontag and Drew reveal how the Navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau. Stretching from the years immediately after World War II to the post-Cold War new reality of warfare, Blind Mans Bluff reads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference - everything in it is true.
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