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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

SUBMARINES

"Series I" submarines (1930-1931)

D-1 1935

D-3 1941

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Декабрист [Dekabrist], 8.1934- Д-1 [D-1]   177 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad 3.1927 3.11.1928 11.1930 foundered 13.11.1940
Народоволец [Narodovolets], 8.1934- Д-2 [D-2], 6.1949- Б-2 [B-2]   178 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad 3.1927 19.5.1929 9.1931 training hulk 6.1956
Красногвардеец [Krasnogvardeets], 8.1934- Д-3 [D-3]   179 Ordzhonikidze Yd, Leningrad 3.1927 12.7.1929 10.1931 lost 6.1942
Революционер [Revolyutsioner], 9.1934- Д-4 [D-4]   27/192 Marti Yd, Nikolayev 4.1927 21.3.1930 12.1930 sunk 4.12.1943
Спартаковец [Spartakovets], 9.1934- Д-5 [D-5], 6.1949- Б-32 [B-32]   28/193 Marti Yd, Nikolayev 4.1927 12.10.1930 4.1931 test ship 10.1948, stricken 12.1955
Якобинец [Yakobinets], 9.1934- Д-6 [D-6]   29/194 Marti Yd, Nikolayev 4.1927 15.11.1930 6.1931 scuttled 26.6.1942

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

Dekabrist, Narodovolets, Krasnogvardeets: 933 / 1354

Revolyutsioner: 945 / 1355

Spartakovets, Yakobinets: 989 / 1385

Length, m

Dekabrist, Narodovolets, Krasnogvardeets: 76.0

Revolyutsioner, Spartakovets, Yakobinets: 76.6

Breadth, m

6.40

Draught, m

Dekabrist, Narodovolets, Krasnogvardeets: 3.81

Revolyutsioner: 4.30

Spartakovets, Yakobinets: 3.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Dekabrist, Narodovolets: 2 MAN diesels / 2 PG20 electric motors

others: 2 42B6 diesels / 2 PG20 electric motors

Power, h. p.

2200 / 1050

Max speed, kts

Dekabrist, Narodovolets, Krasnogvardeets: 14 / 9

Revolyutsioner: 12.5 / 8.2

Spartakovets, Yakobinets: 11.3/ 8.7

Fuel, t

diesel oil 128

Endurance, nm(kts) 7500(8.4) / 132(2.4)

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/43 B-2, 1 x 1 - 37/30 Maxim, 8 - 533 TT (6 bow, 2 stern, 14)

Electronic equipment Atlas Werke hydrophone

Complement

47

Diving depth operational, m

75

Project history: First Soviet-designed submarines. Design was approved 15.10.1926. Large patrol submarines with double-hull construction. They had a number of original technical decisions; for example, a pressure hull with a shuttle-shaped form (subsequently never applied). At the same time, they differed by unprecedented mass usage of imported equipment. Originally 102mm gun was fitted on the CT, during pre-war modernization the gun was transferred on to deck; light hull form in a fore also was changed.

Modernizations: 1935-1936, D-4, D-5, D-6: CT was rebuilt; - 1 x 1 - 37/30; + 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K

1937, D-1: CT was rebuilt; - 1 x 1 - 102/43, 1 x 1 - 37/30; + 1 x 1 - 100/49 B-24, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K

1940, D-3; 1941, D-2: CT was rebuilt; - 1 x 1 - 102/43, 1 x 1 - 37/30; + 1 x 1 - 100/49 B-24, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K

1940-1941, all: - Atlas Werke hydrophone; + Mars-16 hydrophone

1941, D-4: CT was rebuilt; - 1 x 1 - 102/43, 1 x 1 - 45/43; + 1 x 1 - 100/49 B-24, 1 x 1 - 12.7/79

1945, D-5: + type 129 sonar

Naval service: D-1 the was lost 13.11.1940 in Motovsky Bay during trial diving. D-3 was lost between 10 and 30.6.1942 off Tana-fiord; presumably was lost on a mine. D-4 was lost after 1.12.1943; presumably, was lost on a mine in Kalamitsky Bay. D-6 was blown up at Sevastopol 26.6.1942.

Yakobinets 1931

D-3 Krasnogvardeets 1940s

 

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