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V-1 submarine (1937/1944)

V-1 1944

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Â-1 [V-1] (ex-Sunfish)     Chatham DYd, UK 7/1935 30.9.1936 7.1937 // 5.1944 lost 7.1944
  

Displacement standard, t

670

Displacement normal, t

768 / 960

Length, m

63.6

Breadth, m

7.32

Draught, m

3.61

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Admiralty diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

1900 / 1440

Max speed, kts

15 / 10

Fuel, t

diesel oil 39

Endurance, nm(kts) 3800(10) /

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk II, 1 x 1 - 12.7/62, 6 - 533 TT (bow, 12 or 12 mines)

Electronic equipment type 291W radar, type 129 sonar

Complement

39

Diving depth operational, m 60

Project history: Former British submarine of S class, transferred to USSR on account of reparations from Italy.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: V-1 was lost en route to Polyarny, possibly 27.7.1944 sunk erroneously by British aircraft at Faeroe.

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