Age: 47
Sex: male
Date: 19 Apr 1956
Place: Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Lionel Crabb vanished after diving around the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze when it was in Portsmouth Harbour during a diplomatic visit on 19 April 1956.
His disappearance was a complete mystery and a wide range of theories suggesting what happened evolved which were amplified by the circumstances around his disappearance and the government’s attempts to silence the matter in order to prevent a diplomatic incident.
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see Catholic Standard - Friday 01 June 1956
see Bradford Observer - Saturday 14 July 1956
see Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 12 June 1957
see Bradford Observer - Thursday 10 May 1956
see Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 26 June 1957
see Northern Whig - Thursday 27 June 1957
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 29 June 1956
see Bradford Observer - Wednesday 09 May 1956
see Unsolved 1956
