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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 19, 17 August 1928, Page 5

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... BRITISH SUBMARINE. ... skeletons inside ECHO OF RUSSIAN EXPEDITION. United Pr©s s Assn.—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Received 10.15 a.m.) MOSCOW, August- 16. Salvage workers h/vvo raised the British submarine L 55, which was sunk in June, 1919. It is covered with a thick layer of rust, and has skeletons inside. It is believed that forty perished. There are traces of a shell having hit the upper deck. Investigation is proceeding to detei’nline whether the vessel was sunk by artillery fire or whether it collided with a mine. A Soviet not© explains that on June 4, 1919, the Kronstadt fortress reported that British destroyers were in the region of Capar Bay and that Soviet destroyers had engaged them. Afterwards the conning ‘tower of a submarine had appeared and the Russian ships bombarded it. An enormous cloud of black smoke arose, fallowed by dull detonation, and the submarine disappeared Australian Press Association—Unitn ed Service.