Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Submarine class

Dekabrist-class submarine

Dekabrist

The class in numbers

  • 6 Planned
  • 6 Completed
  • 4 Lost
  • 1 Preserved

Design and service

Type
Submarine
Built
1927–1929
Preceded by
Bars-class submarine (Imperial Russian Navy)
Builders
  • 3 at Ordzhonikidze Shipyard, Leningrad
  • 3 at Marti Yard, Nikolayev

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, surfaced
933 long tons (948 t)
Displacement, submerged
1,354 long tons (1,376 t)
Length
76 m (249.3 ft)
Speed
14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
Complement
53
Main gun
100 mm (3.9 in)
Armament
  • 8 21 in torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern), 14 torpedoes carried
  • 1 × 100 mm/51 cal. main deck gun
  • 1 × 45 mm/46 cal. K-21 AA gun
  • 1 × 7.62 mm machine gun

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