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SUBMARINES

"Series XI" minelaying submarines (1936-1938)

L-7 1936

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Л-7 [L-7] (ex-Ворошиловец [Voroshilovets]), 6.1949- Б-23 [B-23]   263 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 4.1934 15.5.1935 12.1936 stricken 4.1958
Л-8 [L-8] (ex-Дзержинец [Dzerzhinets]), 6.1949- Б-24 [B-24]   264 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 4.1934 10.9.1935 12.1936 hulk 2.1952
Л-9 [L-9] (ex-Кировец [Kirovets]), 6.1949- Б-19 [B-19]   265 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 6.1934 25.8.1935 12.1936 stricken 2.1959
Л-10 [L-10] (ex-Менжинец [Menzhinets]), 6.1949- Б-10 [B-10]   285 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 6.1934 18.12.1936 12.1937 charging plant 2.1959
Л-11 [L-11], 6.1949- Б-11 [B-11]   284 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev // 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur 6.1934 4.12.1936 11.1938 stricken 2.1959
Л-12 [L-12], 6.1949- Б-12 [B-12]   286 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev // 199 Yd, Komsomolsk-on-Amur 6.1934 7.11.1936 12.1938 hulk 2.1959

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

1040 / 1335

Length, m

79.9

Breadth, m

7.00

Draught, m

3.96

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 42BM6 diesels / 2 PG84/50 electric motors

Power, h. p.

2200 / 1300

Max speed, kts

14.5 / 8.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 140

Endurance, nm(kts) 7500(10) / 135(2.5)

Armament

1 x 1 - 100/49 B-24, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 6 - 533 TT (bow, 16), 20 mines

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

Complement

55

Diving depth operational, m

75

Project history: Submarines of "combined" type storing powerful torpedo armament at possibility 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. In 1934 for Pacific Fleet there was begun building of XI series, in which construction a number of changes was brought. These submarines were laid down on European shipyards, then taken apart and transported by railways for completion to the Far East. Maximal diving depth for II and XI series was 90 m; for subsequent 100m.

Modernizations: 1941-1943, all: - hydrophone; + Mars-16 hydrophone

1944, L-8, L-11, L-12; 1945, L-7, L-9: + type 129 sonar

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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