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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NAVY (RUSSIA)

SUBMARINES

"Holland" type submarines (SOM) (1904 - 1907)

Beluga 1906

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Сом [Som] (ex-Fulton)     Lewis Nixon, San Francisco, USA 1901 15.6.1901 10/1904 sunk 23.5.1916
Щука [Shchuka]     Nevsky Wks, St. Petersburg 5/1904 28.10.1904 6/1905 captured by Germany 25.2.1918
Пескарь [Peskar']     Nevsky Wks, St. Petersburg // Libava N Yd 5/1904 10/1905 6/1906 captured by Germany 25.2.1918
Стерлядь [Sterlyad']     Nevsky Wks, St. Petersburg // Libava N Yd 5/1904 1905 5/1906 captured by Germany 25.2.1918
Белуга [Beluga]     Nevsky Wks, St. Petersburg // Libava N Yd 5/1904 10/1905 5/1906 captured by Germany 25.2.1918
Лосось [Losos']     Nevsky Wks, St. Petersburg 5/1904 9/1905 5/1906 captured by Germany 1.5.1918
Судак [Sudak]     Nevsky Wks, St. Petersburg 1907 1907 1907 captured by Germany 1.5.1918

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

Som: 105 / 120

others: 105 / 124

Length, m

Som: 19.3

others: 19.8

Breadth, m

Som: 3.58

others: 3.60

Draught, m

2.90

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 gasoline engine / 1 electric motor

Sudak: 1 diesel / 1 electric motor

Power, h. p.

160 / 70

Max speed, kts

8.5 / 6

Fuel, t

gasoline

Endurance, nm(kts) 430 - 500 (6) / 30 - 40 (4.5)

Armament

1 - 450 TT (bow, 3)

Complement

18 - 22
Diving depth operational, m

30 max

Project history: Six ordered under the 1904 Emergency Programme while Fulton was purchased a month later and delivered in sections to facilitate assembly of the whole series.

Modernizations: 1910, Som, Shchuka, Peskar', Sterlyad', Losos': were re-engined with diesels

1910, Beluga: was re-engined with Körting gasoline engine

1915, Som, Shchuka, Peskar', Sterlyad', Beluga: + 1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Naval service: Only Som ('Sheath fish') and Shchuka were delivered by rail to Vladivostok in time and became operational in April and November 1905 respectively. The former boat was the most active submarine of the Siberian Flotilla as she covered over 1300 miles during her war patrols. Losos and Sudak transferred to the Black Sea in 1907, the others remained on the Baltic.

    Som 23.5.1916 was rammed by Swedish s/s Ingermanland off Olandshaf (Alands) and lost with all hands. Shchuka, Peskar', Sterlyad' and Beluga were under repair at Revel in 1918 where they were sized by Germans 25.2.1918. Losos' and Sudak were captured at Sevastopol by Germans 1.5.1918, later re-captured by British-French troops and scuttled by them in 1919.

Peskar'

 

 © Ivan Gogin, 2014