British Submarine Flotilla in The Baltic - Aftermath

Aftermath

The crews of the scuttled submarines were evacuated by Soviet ships to Petrograd and by rail to Murmansk, to join with the Allied intervention forces in North Russia, only weeks before hostilities cut railway lines to Murmansk.

Among the officers were future Admirals and commanders of the British Submarine Service, Sir Noel Laurence and Sir Max Horton and Vice Admiral Leslie Ashmore.

In 1935, the Anglo-German Naval Agreement (AGNA) concluded between Britain and Germany, allowed Germany to increase the size of its navy to one-third the size of the Royal Navy, which would have had the effect of allowing the Kriegsmarine to dominate the Baltic.

Finnish divers have not been able to locate the wrecks, sunk only a few kilometres outside the capital, Helsinki. It is believed that the remains were raised in 1953 by a German company Beckedorf Gebryder and used as scrap metal. Only the badly damaged wreck of Cicero has been located.