L 26
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow)/ Devonport Dockyard |
| Build Group: | L2ML |
| Fate: | She was sunk as a target for sonar testing off St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia on 1 November 1946. The wreck was rediscovered during the search for wreckage from the Swissair Flight 111 crash. |
Commanders
| 1932: | Lieutenant Commander | John Hugh Lewes | |
| 1935: | Lieutenant Commander | Robert Witherington Peers | |
| 1936: | Lieutenant Commander | William Kenneth Ramsden Cross | |
| 1938: | Lieutenant Commander | Frank Woodgate Lipscomb | OBE |
| 1940: | Lieutenant | John Bertram de Betham Kershaw | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant | Richard Prendergast Raikes | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Michael Beauchamp St John | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Stephen Lynch Conway Maydon | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Geoffrey Deryck Nicholson Milner | DSC |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Cyril Astell Pardoe (RNR) | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Henry Denys Verschoyle | DSC MID |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Andrew George Prideaux | DSC |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Richard Thomas Sallis | DSC |
L26 was damaged in the Mediterranean in March 1929, but was repaired in Gibraltar. She was used as a training submarine from 1940 to 1942.
She was transferred to Canada in 1944 as an anti-submarine training ship. She was based at Digby, Nova Scotia at HMCS Cornwallis and at Bermuda, attached to HMCS Somers Isles.
Events
| 25-09-1919 | Launched |
| 08-10-1933 | There was an explosion on board in Campbeltown Harbour, Scotland, which killed two and injured 10 crew. |
| 21-12-1944 | HMS L-26 paid off Halifax NS |
| 01-11-1946 | HMS L-26 scuttled Halifax approaches |
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