Royal Navy — Submarine class
Soviet K-class submarine
K class
The class in numbers
- 12 Planned
- 11 Completed
- 1 Cancelled
- 5 Lost
- 1 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navies
- Royal Navy 8
Soviet Navy 6 - In commission
- 1940–1959
- Preceded by
- Soviet S-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Zulu-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
- 1,490 long tons (1,514 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,600 long tons (2,642 t)
- Length
- 97.65 m (320.4 ft)
- Speed
- 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h, 25.9 mph)
- Complement
- 67
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 6 × bow torpedo tubes
- 2 × stern torpedo tubes
- 2 × external stern torpedo tubes (24 torpedoes)
- 2 × 100 mm guns
- 2 × 45 mm guns
- 20 × mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Kandahar | F28 | 1939 | Scuttled 1941 |
| HMS Kashmir (F12) | F12 | 1939 | Sunk 1941 |
| HMS Kelly | 1939 | Sunk 1941 | |
| HMS Kelvin | F37 | 1939 | Scrapped 1949 |
| HMS Khartoum | F45 | 1939 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Kimberley | 1939 | Scrapped 1949 | |
| HMS Kingston (F64) | F64 | 1939 | Scrapped |
| HMS Kipling | F91 | 1939 | Sunk 1942 |
| Soviet submarine K-1 | 1940 | 1943 | |
| Soviet submarine K-21 | 1940 | Preserved 1982 | |
| Soviet submarine K-22 | 1940 | Sunk 1943 | |
| Soviet submarine K-23 | 1940 | Sunk 1942 | |
| Soviet submarine K-3 (1938) | 1938 | 1940 | Sunk 1943 |
| Soviet submarine K-51 | 1943 | Scrapped 1975 | |
| Soviet submarine K-56 (1940) | 1940 | 1942 | 1957 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Soviet K-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.