Ronis 1940
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Ронис [Ronis] (ex-Ronis) | A C de la Loire, Nantes, France | 1925 | 1.7.1926 | 1927 // 8.1940 | scuttled 24.6.1941 | ||
| Спидола [Spidola[ (ex-Spidola) | A C de la Loire, Nantes, France | 1925 | 6.10.1926 | 1927 // 8.1940 | scuttled 24.6.1941 |
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Displacement standard, t |
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Displacement normal, t |
390 / 514 |
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Length, m |
55.0 |
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Breadth, m |
4.80 |
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Draught, m |
3.60 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 Sulzer diesels / 2 electric motors |
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Power, h. p. |
1300 / 700 |
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Max speed, kts |
14 / 9 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 19 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 1600(14) / |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 75/34 M1925, 6 - 450 TT (2 bow, 2 x 2 turnable, 8) |
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Complement |
27 |
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Diving depth operational, m |
50 |
Project history: Former Latvian Ronis and Spidola.
Ordered in France under design of Simoneaut. Single-hulled submarines with traditional for
French submarines arrangement of TTs: 2 fixed in
a bow of a pressure hull and 2 twin trained on deck, out of a pressure
hull (thanks to protective boards they entered into light hull
lines). Trained deck TTs can be reloaded only in base.
With occurrence of Latvia into the USSR 19.8.1940 both entered Red Navy, but at once have been put into
repair and never been maintained by Soviet crews.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Ronis and Spidola 23.6.1941 were blown up at Libava. They were salvaged by Germans and scrapped in 1943.
Spidola
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