HMS L55

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS L55
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
Launched	29 September 1918
Fate	Sunk, 9 June 1919
Soviet Union
Name	Л-55 Bezbozhnik
Acquired	Raised, 11 August 1928, and repaired
Recommissioned	7 August 1931
Renamed	7 August 1931
Fate	Scrapped c. 1960
General characteristics
Class and type	L class submarine
Displacement	960 long tons (975 t) surfaced 1,150 long tons (1,168 t) submerged
Length	230 ft 6 in (70.26 m)
Beam	23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Draught	13 ft 1 in (3.99 m)
Propulsion	2 × Vickers diesel engines, 2,400 hp (1,790 kW) 2 × electric motors, 1,600 hp (1,193 kW) 2 shafts
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) surfaced 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) submerged
Range	4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	44
Armament	6 × 21 in (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes 12 × 21 inch torpedoes 2 × QF 4-inch guns

HMS L55 was a British L class submarine built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Clyde. She was laid down on 21 September 1917 and was commissioned on 19 December 1918.

In 1919 L55 was sunk in the Baltic Sea by Bolshevik vessels while serving as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The submarine was raised in 1928 and repaired by the Soviets. After being used for training, she finally was scrapped in the 1950s.