HMS L55 Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 2016. Memorial.
HMS L55 Memorial
- WRENN ID
- rough-niche-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A commemorative monument to a naval disaster of 1919, constructed in 1928.
MATERIALS: the memorial is constructed from dressed limestone.
DESCRIPTION: a screen memorial with a stepped arched head on a shallow rectangular base. The die has a raised border and five raised panels, the central one of which is flanked by the inscription ‘1914-1919’, and incised onto the panel is: ‘HERE ARE RECORDED / THE NAMES / OF THOSE OFFICERS / AND MEN OF / HM SUBMARINE L55 / SUNK / IN THE BALTIC ON / THE 4TH JUNE 1919 / WHO LIE BURIED / IN THIS GRAVE’. The outer four panels bear the names of the 42 victims arranged alphabetically with their ranks and ages.
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 6 December 2016.
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