Soviet Navy — Submarine class
Shchuka-class submarine
The class in numbers
- 88 Completed
- 35 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Soviet Navy
- In commission
- - 1956
- Preceded by
- Leninets-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Pravda-class submarine
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 577 long tons (586 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 704 long tons (715 t)
- Length
- 57 m (187 ft)
- Speed
- 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h, 14.4 mph)
- Complement
- 38
- Main gun
- 45 mm (1.8 in)
- Armament
- 4 × bow torpedo tubes
- 2 × stern torpedo tubes
- (10 torpedoes)
- 2 × 45 mm semi-automatic guns
Roster
Holding 6 of the 88 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soviet submarine S-117 | 1934 | Sunk 1952 | |
| Soviet submarine Shch-117 | 1934 | Sunk 1952 | |
| Soviet submarine Shch-213 | 1938 | Sunk 1942 | |
| Soviet submarine Shch-215 | 1938 | Scrapped 1956 | |
| Soviet submarine Shch-317 | 1936 | Sunk | |
| Soviet submarine Shch-421 | 1937 | Scuttled 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Shchuka-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.