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Rupert LONSDALE [1905-1999]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Lonsdale
Given: 
Rupert
Birth
Date: 
1905-05-05
Birthplace (town, state): 
Dublin
Death
Date: 
1999-04-25
Other
Other reference: 
Mau-Mau

Rupert Lonsdale, later Canon Lonsdale, was one of the officers who served on HM Submarine L3 in the 4th Submarine Flotilla on the China Station in 1928-29, having first served on the X1 in 1927. In May 1939 he came back to the China Sea in command of Seal a Grampus class submarine, but returned to the North Sea patrol. Seal was given the task of laying a minefield in Kattegat, but was bombed by a Heinkel. Diving to evade e-boats Seal hit a newly laid minefield and was damaged.

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