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).
Sydney Knowles, BEM, was a British Royal Navy frogman during and after World War II.
Lionel Crabb
…a tactic said to have been introduced by Crabb. Their bodies were recovered, and their swimfins and Scuba sets were taken and from then on used by Sydney Knowles and Crabb. Crabb was awarded the George Medal for his efforts and was promoted to lieutenant commander. In 1943 he became Principal Diving Officer for…