HMS L26

HMS "L26" was a British L class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was transferred to HM Dockyard, Portsmouth for completion. She was laid down on 31 January 1917 and commissioned on an unknown date.

HMS "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 a anti submarine training ship. She was based at Digby, Nova Scotia at HMCS Cornwallis and at Bermuda, attached to HMS Somers Isle. She was sunk as a target for sonar testing off St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia. The wreck was discovered during the search for wreckage from the Swissair Flight 111 crash

HMS "L26" was scrapped in Canada in 1946.

References

* "Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day", by Robert Hutchinson

External links

* [http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=2666 Description of the "L26" wreck]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2000/08/24/oldsub000824.html CBC news story]