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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

SUBMARINES

"Series II" submarines (1933-1935)

L-3 1941

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Ленинец [Leninets], 9.1934- Л-1 [L-1]   195 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad 9.1929 28.2.1931 10.1933 sunk 9.11.1941
Сталинец [Stalinets] (ex-Марксист [Marxist]), 9.1934- Л-2 [L-2]   196 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad 9.1929 21.5.1931 10.1933 sunk 14.11.1941
Фрунзовец [Frunzovets] (ex-Большевик [Bolshevik]), 9.1934- Л-3 [L-3], 6.1949- Б-3 [B-3]   197 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad 9.1929 8.7.1931 11.1933 training hulk 5.1956
Гарибальдиец [Garibaldiets], 9.1934- Л-4 [L-4], 6.1949- Б-34 [B-34]   31/201 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev 3.1930 31.8.1931 10.1933 stricken 2.1956
Чартист [Chartist], 9.1934- Л-5 [L-5], 6.1949- Б-35 [B-35]   32/202 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev 3.1930 5.6.1932 10.1933 stricken 12.1955
Л-6 [L-6] (ex-Карбонарий [Karbonariy])   33/203 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev 4.1930 3.11.1932 5.1935 sunk 16-19.4.1944

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

Leninets, Stalinets: 1040 / 1335

Frunzovets: 1051 / 1327

Garibaldiets, Chartist, L-6: 1038 / 1330

Length, m

78.0

Garibaldiets: 78.5

Breadth, m

Leninets, Stalinets: 7.30

Frunzovets, Garibaldiets, L-6: 7.20

Chartist: 7.00

Draught, m

Leninets, Stalinets, Frunzevets: 4.01

Garibaldiets, L-6: 4.20

Chartist: 4.25

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 42BM6 diesels / 2 PG84/50 electric motors

Power, h. p.

2200 / 1300

Max speed, kts

Leninets, Stalinets, Frunzevets: 14.8 / 8.5

Garibaldiets: 12.5 / 8.2

Chartist: 13.8 / 8.3

L-6: 11.3 / 8

Fuel, t

diesel oil 102

Endurance, nm(kts) 6000(10) / 135(2.5)

Armament

Leninets, Stalinets: 1 x 1 - 102/43 B-2, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 6 - 533 TT (bow, 12), 17 mines

Frunzevets, Chartist: 1 x 1 - 102/43 B-2, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 6 - 533 TT (bow, 12), 20 mines

Garibaldiets, L-6: 1 x 1 - 102/43 B-2, 6 - 533 TT (bow, 12), 20 mines

Electronic equipment Merkuriy or Mars-A or Mars-DM or Mars-ShM hydrophone

Complement

54 - 55

Diving depth operational, m

75

Project history: Submarines of "combined" type storing powerful torpedo armament at ability to laid mines. In construction experience of building of D class submarines was used, and also decisions borrowed from raised British subarine L55. Saddle-tank hull. Mines were carried in two horizontal watertight tubes and laid astern.
    Submarines of II series were built for Baltic and Black Seas. Maximal diving depth was 90 m.

Modernizations: 1939, L-1; 1941, L-2, L-3; 1945, L-5: CT was rebuilt; - 1 x 1 - 102/43; + 1 x 1 - 100/49 B-24

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

1941, L-6: CT was rebuilt; - 1 x 1 - 102/43; + 1 x 1 - 100/49 B-24, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K

1943, L-3: + type 129 sonar

Naval service: L-1 was sunk 9.11.1941 by German field guns in port of Leningrad. Later she was salvaged but never repaired and stricken in July, 1945. L-2 was lost 14.11.1941 on mines at island Keri. L-6 was lost between 11 and 21.4.1944 in NW part of Black sea; probably, on a mine or was sunk 16.4.1944 by German submarine chaser UJ115 or 18.4.1944 by UJ104 and Romanian gunboat Sublocotenent Ghigulescu.

 

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