Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Soviet Navy — Submarine class

Leninets-class submarine

The class in numbers

  • 25 Completed
  • 4 Lost
  • 1 Preserved

Design and service

Type
Submarine
Navy
Soviet Navy
Built
1931–1941
In commission
1931–1971

Class specifications

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

As built
Displacement, surfaced
1,051 long tons (1,068 t)
Displacement, submerged
1,327 long tons (1,348 t)
Length
81 m (265.7 ft)
Speed
18 knots (33.3 km/h, 20.7 mph)
Complement
53
Main gun
100 mm (3.9 in)
Armament
  • 1 × 100 mm gun
  • 1 × 45 mm gun
  • 6 × 21 in bow torpedo tubes
  • 12 × torpedoes
  • 20 × mines
  • 2 stern mounted torpedo tubes added in Groups 3 and 4

Roster

Holding 4 of the 25 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 L-21 1943 Scrapped
Soviet submarine L-22 1942 Scrapped
Soviet submarine L-3 1933 Preserved 1971
Soviet submarine L-4 1933 Scrapped 1956

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