L FLAG SUPERIOR

L CLASS SUBMARINES
1917-1946.
UNTIL THE SECOND WORLD WAR, IT WAS USUAL FOR SUBMARINES TO HAVE ONLY A PENNANT NUMBER AND NO NAME; WINSTON CHURCHILL DIRECTED THAT ALL SUBMARINES BE NAMED.

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Pennant Number		Name		Information
L1				EX E57 1917-1930
L2				EX E58 1917-1930
L3				1917-1930
L4				1917-1934
L5				1918-1930
L6				1918-1935
L7				1917-1930
L8				1917-1930
L9				1918-1923 FOUNDERED
L10				1918 SUNK TORPEDOED
L11				1918-1932
L12				1918-1932
L14				1918-1934
L15				1918-1932
L16				1918-1934
L17				1918-1934
L18				1918-1936
L19				1919-1937
L20				1918-1935
L21				1919-1939
L22				1919-1935
L23				1919-1946
L24				1919-1924 SUNK COLLISION
L25				1919-1935
L26				1919-1945
L27				1919-1944
L28				1919 CANCELLED
L29				1919 CANCELLED
L30				1919 CANCELLED
L31				1919 CANCELLED
L32				1919 NOT COMPLETED SOLD AS A SALVAGE VESSEL L33
L34				1919 CANCELLED
L35				1919 CANCELLED
L36				1919 CANCELLED
L37				NOT ORDERED
L38				NOT ORDERED
L39				NOT ORDERED
L40				NOT ORDERED
L41				NOT ORDERED
L42				NOT ORDERED
L43				NOT ORDERED
L44				NOT ORDERED
L45				NOT ORDERED
L46				NOT ORDERED
L47				NOT ORDERED
L48				NOT ORDERED
L49				NOT ORDERED
L50				1917 CANCELLED 1919
L51				1919 CANCELLED
L52				1918-1935
L53				1919-1939
L54				1919-1939
L55				1918-1919 SUNK
L56				1919-1938
L57				1918 CANCELLED 1919
L58				1918 CANCELLED 1919
L59				1919 CANCELLED
L60				1919 CANCELLED
L61				1919 CANCELLED
L62				1918 CANCELLED 1919
L63				1919 CANCELLED
L64				1919 CANCELLED
L65				1918 CANCELLED 1919
L66				1919 CANCELLED
L67				1917 CANCELLED 1919
L68				1917 CANCELLED 1919
L69				1918-1939
L70				1920 CANCELLED HULL SOLD AS SALVAGE VESSEL
L71				1919-1938
L72				1917 CANCELLED 1919
L73				1919 CANCELLED
L74				1919 CANCELLED