Polish Navy — Submarine class
Wilk-class submarine
Wilk
The class in numbers
- 3 Completed
- 0 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Polish Navy
- In commission
- 12 April 1929 - 1955
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
At 1 September 1939
- Displacement, surfaced
- 980 long tons (996 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,250 long tons (1,270 t)
- Length
- 78.5 m (257.5 ft)
- Speed
- 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h, 16.7 mph)
- Complement
- 46
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 1 × 100 mm deck gun
- 2 × 13.2 mm deck anti-aircraft heavy machine guns (mounted in place of 40 mm gun from 1935 onwards)
- 4 × 550 mm torpedo tubes, bow
- 2 × 550 mm (twin) rotating torpedo tubes, midship
- 16 × 550 mm torpedoes (6 in tubes and 10 reloads)
- 40 × mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORP Ryś (1929) | 1929 | 1932 | Scrapped 1956 |
| ORP Wilk (1929) | 1929 | 1931 | Scrapped 1954 |
| ORP Żbik (1930) | 1930 | 1932 | Scrapped 1956 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Wilk-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.