Submarine HMS H49 at Heysham Harbour

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277110

Reference identifier

nmo20180914012

Title

Submarine HMS H49 at Heysham Harbour

Place

Heysham

General notes

There's probably a wrong description on the picture.

This is HMS H49, built by William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir, Scotland, launched 15th July 1919 and commissioned 25th October 1919.
She was sunk 18th October 1940 by a German patrol west of Texel Island, the Netherlands. There was only one survivor, taken as a prisoner of war.

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