A.G.11 1916
A-5 1941
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| А.Г.11 [A.G.11] | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Baltic Wks, Petrograd | 4.1916 | 7.1916 | 9.1916 | scuttled 3.4.1918 | ||
| А.Г.12 [A.G.12] | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Baltic Wks, Petrograd | 4.1916 | 7.1916 | 9.1916 | scuttled 3.4.1918 | ||
| А.Г.13 [A.G.13], 7.1917- А.Г.16 [A.G.16] | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Baltic Wks, Petrograd | 4.1916 | 13.9.1916 | 11.1916 | scuttled 3.4.1918 | ||
| А.Г.14 [A.G.14] | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Baltic Wks, Petrograd | 4.1916 | 9.1916 | 11.1916 | sunk 6.7.1917 | ||
| А.Г.15 [A.G.15] | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Baltic Wks, Petrograd | 4.1916 | 9.1916 | 11.1916 | scuttled 3.4.1918 | ||
| А.Г.21 [A.G.21], 2.1931- Металлист [Metallist], 9.1934- А-5 [A-5] | 16 | 5 | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev | 4.1917 | 10.1917 | 1918 | commissioned by Whites, captured by Britain and France 24.11.1918, scuttled, salvaged, commissioned 12.1930, charging plant 8.1945 |
| А.Г.22 [A.G.22] | 6 | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev | 4.1917 | 1918 | 8.1919 | commissioned by Whites, interned by France 12.1920 | |
| Им. тов. Троцкого [Im. tov. Trotskogo] (ex-А.Г.23 [A.G.23]), 12.1922- Незаможный [Nezamozhnyy], 6.1923- Шахтёр [Shakhtyor], 9.1934- А-1 [A-1] | 12 | 7 | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev | 5.1917 | 1.6.1920 | 10.1920 | scuttled 26.6.1942 |
| Им. тов. Луначарского [Im. tov. Lunacharskogo] (ex-А.Г.24 [A.G.24]), 12.1922- Коммунист [Kommunist], 9.1934- А-2 [A-2], 6.1949- М-52 [M-52] | 13 | 16 | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev | 11.1919 | 2.4.1921 | 7.1921 | stricken 11.1950 |
| А.Г.25 [A.G.25], 3.1923- Марксист [Marxist], 9.1934- А-3 [A-3] | 14 | 17 | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev | 7.1921 | 5.4.1922 | 5.1922 | sunk 28.10.1943 |
| Политработник [Politrabotnik] (ex-Им. тов. Каменева [Im. tov. Kameneva], ex-А.Г.26 [A.G.26]), 9.1934- А-4 [A-4] | 15 | 18 | Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev | 10.1920 | 24.2.1923 | 7.1923 | stricken 2.1947 |
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Displacement standard, t |
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Displacement normal, t |
A.G.11-15: 356 / 441 A.G.21-23: 355 / 434 A.G.24-26: 361 / 440 |
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Length, m |
A.G.11-15, 21-23: 45.8 A.G.24-26: 46.0 |
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Breadth, m |
A.G.11-15: 4.81 A.G.21-23: 4.88 A.G.24-26: 4.80 |
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Draught, m |
A.G.11-15: 3.76 A.G.21-23: 3.80 A.G.24-26: 3.84 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 diesels / 2 electric motors |
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Power, h. p. |
A.G.11-15: 480 / 620 A.G.21-25: 960 / 620 A.G.26: 240 / 620 |
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Max speed, kts |
A.G.11-15: 12.5 - 13 / 10.5 - 10.8 A.G.21-23: 11.5 / 10 A.G.24, 25: 12 / 10 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 15 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
A.G.11-15: 2580(11) / 100(5) A.G.21-23: 2450(11) / 100(5) A.G.24, 25: 2400(11) / 100(5) |
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Armament |
A.G.11-15: 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 4 - 450 TT (bow, 8) AG.21-26: 1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 4 - 450 TT (bow, 8) |
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Complement |
24 |
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Diving depth operational, m |
50 |
Project history: American Holland type boats, originally built under British order but bought up by Russia, shipped in sections to Vladivostok, and then to Petrograd and Nikolaev by railways. Single-hulled, with five watertight compartments. Intended for operations on approaches to enemies ports and bases.
Unique Soviet WWII submarines, with 450mm TTs, and TT cover construction allowed to launch no more than two torpedoes in one salvo. Theoretically they could carry 4 spare torpedoes, but because of deterioration of habitability conditions till November, 1943 it did not use. As a whole their constructions differed by very high quality, reliability and damage tolerance, were characterised as rather successful submarines. Shallow diving depth (maximal was 50m) was the basic lack.
Modernizations: 1929, Shakhtyor, Kommunist, Politrabotnik; 1935, A-3, 1938, A-5: electric motors were replaced by new ones (480hp, 8kts submerged); - 1 x 1 - 47/40; + 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, torpedoes stowage decreased to 4.
Naval service: During operations in September, 1917 A.G.14 was lost off Libava for unknown cause (probably mined). Remaining Baltic A.G.11, 12, 15, 16 were blown up and scuttled by crews in April, 1918 at Helsingfors to avoid capture by German troops. A.G.21 was scuttled 26.4.1919 at Sevastopol by British troops, but in 1928 raised and entered service. A.G.22 was withdrawn by Whites to Bizerte, remaining submarines were completed after revolution.
A-1 26.6.1942 was blown up at Sevastopol. A-3 was lost after 28.10.1943; presumably on a mine in Kalamitsky Bay.
A.G.14
Politrabotnik 1920s
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
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