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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

SUBMARINES

APL and PIGMEY midget submarines

Pigmey

Names

ΐΟΛ [APL], Οθγμει [Pigmey] + 9 incomplete units

Builders

196 Yd (Sudomekh Wks), Leningrad: APL, Pigmey, 9 incomplete

Completed

None

(APL was launched 7.1935, Pigmey was launched 10.1936)

Losses

cancelled 1937: 9 boats

APL (captured by Germany 29.6.1942 on the stocks), Pigmey (captured by Germany 29.6.1942 on the stocks)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

APL: 18 /

Pigmey: 18.6 /

Length, m

APL: 16.0

Pigmey: 16.4

Breadth, m

APL: 2.65

Pigmey: 2.62

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel / 1 electric motor

Power, h. p.

36 /

Max speed, kts

6 / 5

Fuel, t

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Endurance, nm(kts)

APL: 150(4) / 20(2.5)

Pigmey: 290(4) / 60(2.5)

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 2 - 450 TT (side fwd, 2)

Complement

4
Diving depth operational, m

30

 

Project history: Single-hulled midget submarine. APL was experimental submarine. Pigmey could be a lead boat of the class. Both submarines were actively used on trials but thank to many lacks and problems were never commissioned by Navy and later captured by Germans at Sevastopol.

 

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