The Tale of Lionel "Buster" Crabb continues (Man who vanished in Portsmouth 1956)

Lionel Crabb
(1909-1956)

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

On the Internet is a tale about Lionel Crabb, who vanished probably during the spy mission at the Portsmouth harbor. And in some sources are mentioned that during the Second World War this man used captured Italian scuba-diving equipment during his missions during the war. In that case, we must ask the question, why Crabb used Italian suit rather than the British scuba-diving suit. Here we must ask one question: Why Italian scuba-diving suit is sometimes better than the British version?

if we would use our imaginations, we can find out the reason, why the person like Crabb liked that suit. But this scenario is something strange and that is the real imaginational thought, that maybe Crabb was actually some commando or agent, and that was this man used Italian scuba-diving suit. The reason, why some agent would like that Italian suit would be really well seen, but the question is that why some agent would do this kind of actions, where that things are useful?


There are some technical details, what is different in Italian scuba-diving than British version in the Second World War. One of them is that Italian scuba-diving suit has the removable hood, what allowed to use this suit under the normal clothes that nobody noticed that. Also, Italian scuba-diving suit would allow the agents to slip in the Italian submarines. But there is no evidence that British have made that kind of actions.


One of the most important questions about this case is, that why Crabb allowed to use that special suit? And was something, what happened in the war cause the death of that man? What could be the reason, why Lionel Crabb was murdered in the Portsmouth, or where he vanished? Was there something, what he didn't want other people to know?  If Crabb took part in some secret elimination missions, the papers of those missions would be destroyed after the Second World War.


And who was targeted in those speculative operations? The scuba diving suit and equipment can be used in the storm water drain system of the city, and the scuba divers can slip in the cellars of the houses. And if Lionel Crabb and his fellows would like to murder Adolph Hitler in the fictional operation, they could slip in the Berlin by using rivers, and then they must slip in the water drains, and after that find the bunker, and explode the hole in the wall and shoot everybody.  But this is of course fiction.


The scuba-diver can swim to the beach and then slip into the operation area and do the mission like photographing the equipment or put the explosives in some ammo dumps. They also can use rats, what are trained to find the explosives, and then explode the detonator, what is in the bag of that animal. If the explosive detonates in the middle of ammunition storage, the all explosives in that are place can explode. Scuba-divers can also use sniper rifles against targets. If Crabb took a part of those operations is of course lost in history. And maybe only Lionel Crabb knows the real reason, why he vanished.

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Why scuba-diver Lionel "Buster" Crabb vanished in Portsmouth harbor in 1956?

Sverdlov-class cruiser
(Picture I)

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

There is a strange story of the experienced scuba-diver Lionel Kenneth Philipp Crabb (1909-1956), who was working in the mine disarming unit in the Mediterranean and Portsmouth. This man was experienced scuba-diver, who worked in many risky missions during the WWII and after that. He was the member of the Royal Navy voluntary reserve and got the military rank Lieutenant Commander. In his biography has mentioned, that this man was the quite interesting person, who lived alone in the sleeping car, and wore always number one uniform.


This man used captures Italian diving suit, and he was working after the WWII at Palestine for disarming the mines what the Jew divers have put in the keels of the ships at the harbors of Palestine. When we are thinking about the vanishing of this man in the Portsmouth harbor when this man worked for MI-6 and spied the Soviet "Sverdlov-class" cruiser's underwater structures. This has been caused rumors about this case, that this scuba-diver was killed by Soviet frogmen, but there would be many people, who think that this case is still open. Nobody confirmed this man, named Koltshov claiming.


One Soviet diver told, that he cut the throat of  Crabb in the Portsmouth harbor, but he didn't have any evidence about that claiming, that Crabb was putting mine near the keel of the cruiser "Ordzhonikidze", what brought the leader of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin to Great Britain to meet the prime minister of that State. There is the possibility, that the cruiser used it's engines suddenly, and then Crabb was killed by accident when he went too close to the propel. another explanation would be that Crabb was captured by the Soviet Union, or he might jump in that land. But there is one thing, what makes this case very interesting. Why MI-6 needed to pay for that man?

Lionel Crabb
(1909-1956?)
(Picture II)

They were operating in the Great Britain territory, and that service could be given that mission to the company of SBS-scuba divers, so what was the reason, that they used Crabb in the very difficult mission. If Crabb moved to the Soviet Union voluntarily, was he made that because he didn't get the honor, what belonged to him? Was he disappointed with Great Britain, because they didn't give him the rank or position of the "real officer"? Or did he took the part of some secret operation, where were planned to put the mine under the keel of that cruiser?


Was the purpose of the mysterious "Operation Portsmouth" put the mine under the keel of that cruiser? Or was the thing, what were meant to put under the keel some kind of recorder, what would record the talking, what was made between Khrushchev and Bulganin? And in the same price would the British Intelligence get the voices of the machines of that cruiser. There is the possibility, that Soviet Spetsnaz scuba-divers were noticed Crabb under the ship, by the underwater TV-cameras, and then they were moved in the water probably by using an underwater airlock because nobody noticed anything from the beach.


There must be persons, who would make the alarm if they see, that some scuba-divers would come to the deck of the Soviet cruiser. But as I told, the case is still open. Even if one handless and headless body were found at the beach, and some friends of Crabb noticed the scar on the knee of the body, what was similar, what Crabb had. But the recognition was not sure, and this is the reason, why, Lieutenant  Commander Lionel Kenneth Philipp Crabb is still missing, and this case is quite mysterious. He was heavy drinking, and when we are talking, that this man was actually ordered to reserve, because of personal problems, could that cause the depression and self-destruction of this man, who served in dangerous missions at many places around the world.

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Picture I

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Picture II

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