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).
The Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus, was an early type of oxygen rebreather invented in 1910 by Sir Robert Davis, head of Siebe Gorman and Co. Ltd., inspired by the earlier Fleuss system, and adopted
A Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus
Davis breathing apparatus tested at the submarine escape test tank at HMS Dolphin, Gosport, 14 December 1942