Word: l55
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Jolly British tars were grave, last week, at news that the submarine L55 had been raised from Baltic waters, after nine years. Forty-one British skeletons were discovered by the salvage crew all of whom were Soviet Russian sailors, commanded by Comrade Chief Commander (Admiral) R. A. Muklevich. Said...
...London the British Admiralty released a communiqué from which three facts appeared. First that the British were now receiving the first official intimation that the L55 was ever sunk. Second that the Admiralty had announced on June 12, 1919, eight days after the sinking, that a submarine (unnamed) was missing from the British Baltic Fleet. Third, that the relatives and next of kin of the Britishmen lost on the L55 were privily notified...
...Kronstadt, of course, Red sailors held jollifications and high jinks. They knew that the L55 is a noble prize of a war which, although never declared (see France), was nonetheless hotly fought. Indeed, the L-55, a ship of 1,150 tons, is almost as large as the recently raised U.S. submarine S-4 (TIME, Dec. 26), and twice as large as the Italian F14, sunk and raised last fortnight. Soviet technicians added to the jollification by announcing that the Red sailors' prize is in sufficiently good condition 'to be made serviceable, seaworthy, deadly. Citizens of the British...
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