Soviet Navy — Submarine class
Kalev-class submarine
Kalev class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 1 Lost
- 1 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Soviet Navy
- In commission
- 1936 - 1979
- Builders
- Vickers Armstrong
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 665 long tons (676 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 853 long tons (867 t)
- Length
- 59.5 m (195.2 ft)
- Speed
- 13.5 knots (25 km/h, 15.5 mph)
- Complement
- 32
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
- Armament
- 4 × bow torpedo tubes
- (8 21 inch (533 mm)torpedoes)
- 1 × 40 mm Bofors AA gun
- 1 × .303 in Lewis AA gun
- 20 mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| EML Kalev (1936) | 1936 | 1937 | 1941 |
| EML Lembit | 1937 | Preserved 2011 | |
| Soviet submarine Kalev | 1937 | 1941 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Kalev-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.