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3/4 Port bow view of submarine H.M.S. H34 approaching the East Bute Basin, Cardiff, c.1937.

The 440 ton H-class submarine H34 approaching the East Bute Basin, c. 1937. Built at Birkenhead in 1918, she was sold by the Royal Navy after the Second World War, and broken up at Troon late in 1945.

Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.

She was a British H-class submarine built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was laid down on 20 November 1917 and was commissioned on 10 September 1919. HMS H34 was one of the seven H-class submarines to survive until the end of World War II . She was sold for scrapping in Troon in July 1945.