Lionel Crabb
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Lieutenant-Commander Lionel Kenneth Philip Crabb,, known as Buster Crabb, was a Royal Navy frogman and diver who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for MI6 around a Soviet Navy cruiser berthed a
Crabb, April 1944
Crabb in Gibraltar
Medals awarded to Lionel Crabb.
Ordzhonikidze was a Sverdlov-class cruiser similar to that shown in this photograph (Alexander Nevsky).
Frogman
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A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater. The term often applies more to professional rather than recreational divers, especially those working in a tactical capacity
A SEAL Delivery Team member climbs aboard a delivery vehicle before launching from the back of the submarine USS Philadelphia.
A 1945 British navy frogman with complete gear, including the Davis apparatus, a rebreather originally conceived in 1910 by Robert Davis as an emergency submarine escape set.
A French frogman with chest counterlung loop rebreather with two breathing tubes (model "Oxygers", 1957).
Royal Navy divers in Sladen suits during World War II