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
- Constituency
- Gosport MP: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- OS grid reference
- SZ 609 985
- Coordinates
- 50.78369, -1.13681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The HMS L55 Memorial is a commemorative monument dedicated to a naval disaster that occurred in 1919, built in 1928. It is made from dressed limestone and features a screen design with a stepped arched head set on a shallow rectangular base. The die has a raised border and five raised panels. The central panel includes the inscription ‘1914-1919’ and is engraved with the words: ‘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 four outer panels list the names of the 42 victims, arranged alphabetically along with their ranks and ages.
Local climate
HMS L55 Memorial receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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