An item reported that the British submarine L 55 which was sunk by two Russian cruisers on 4 June 1919 in the Kaporsky Bay was now salvaged and transported to Kronstadt with on board the bodies of forty crewmembers. The Russian naval authorities started an investigation and already found some skeletons but all not identifiable.(1)
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1. Laid down on 21 September 1917 at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, launched on 29 September 1918, commissioned on 19 December, sunk on 9 June 1919, discovered in 1927, raised on 11 August, the remains of her crew (34 and not 40 as reported in the newspaper) were sent back to England and buried in Portsmouth on 7 September. The L55 was repaired, commissioned on 7 August 1931 in the Russian navy at the Bezbozhnik and not earlier broken up as around 1960! These and more details are supplied by the website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_L55
