| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow)/ Sheerness Dockyard |
| Build Group: | L2ML |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1947 in Canada. |
In 1944 was sent to Canada for training purposes.
| 14-06-1919 | Launched |
| 15-10-1940 | HMS L 27 attacks a German convoy in the English Channel off Cape Barfleur, France. All torpedoes miss. |
| 23-11-1944 | HMS L-27 paid off |
| Displacement | L14, L17, L26, L27: 908 sf 1,065 sm |
| L24, L25: 911 sf 1068 sm | |
| Length | 238.5ft (oa) |
| Breadth | 23.5ft |
| Draught/Height | 13.5ft |
| Machinery | 2 x 12 cylinder solid injection Vickers type diesels 2400 bhp. |
| 4 x electric motors 1600 bhp | |
| 1 x 20 hp aux motor for slow running. | |
| Twin screws. | |
| Speed | (Surface) 17.5 kts |
| (Submerged) 10.5 kts | |
| Oil Supply | 76 tons |
| Armament | 1 x 4 inch/40 QF; 2 MG |
| 4 x 21 inch bow tubes | |
| 8 Torpedoes carried | |
| L24/L25 completed without the 4 inch gun | |
| L14, L17, L26, L27: 16 mines | |
| L24, L25: 14 mines. | |
| Range | 3,800/200nm at 10/2 kt |
| Complement | 39 |
R 4 |
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| Class: | 1917 - 1934: R Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | R |
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Fate: Broken Up May 1934 |
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U-571 Stars Matthew McCaughney, Bill Paxton and Jon-Bon Jovi.
A team of US soldiers are sent on a mission to sneak aboard a disabled German U-Boat to steal an encryption device that would give the Allies the edge they need to win the war. What they don't know is... Germans are on their way to answer the SOS as well.
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| Displacement | L14, L17, L26, L27: 908 sf 1,065 sm |
| L24, L25: 911 sf 1068 sm | |
| Length | 238.5ft (oa) |
| Breadth | 23.5ft |
| Draught/Height | 13.5ft |
| Machinery | 2 x 12 cylinder solid injection Vickers type diesels 2400 bhp. |
| 4 x electric motors 1600 bhp | |
| 1 x 20 hp aux motor for slow running. | |
| Twin screws. | |
| Speed | (Surface) 17.5 kts |
| (Submerged) 10.5 kts | |
| Oil Supply | 76 tons |
| Armament | 1 x 4 inch/40 QF; 2 MG |
| 4 x 21 inch bow tubes | |
| 8 Torpedoes carried | |
| L24/L25 completed without the 4 inch gun | |
| L14, L17, L26, L27: 16 mines | |
| L24, L25: 14 mines. | |
| Range | 3,800/200nm at 10/2 kt |
| Complement | 39 |
R 4 |
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| Class: | 1917 - 1934: R Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | R |
|
Fate: Broken Up May 1934 |
|
U-571 Stars Matthew McCaughney, Bill Paxton and Jon-Bon Jovi.
A team of US soldiers are sent on a mission to sneak aboard a disabled German U-Boat to steal an encryption device that would give the Allies the edge they need to win the war. What they don't know is... Germans are on their way to answer the SOS as well.
13 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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