Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Soviet Navy — Submarine class

Soviet S-class submarine

S class

The class in numbers

  • 40 Completed

Design and service

Type
Submarine
Navy
Soviet Navy
Built
1934–1948
Succeeded by
K class

Class specifications

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

As built
Displacement, surfaced
827 long tons (840 t)
Displacement, submerged
1,033 long tons (1,050 t)
Length
77.8 m (255.2 ft)
Speed
19.5 knots (36.1 km/h, 22.4 mph)
Complement
8
Main gun
100 mm (3.9 in)
Armament
  • 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • (4 forward, 2 aft, 12 torpedoes)
  • 1 × 100 mm B-24-2 gun
  • 1 × 45 mm 21-K gun
  • Mines

Roster

Holding 2 of the 40 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 S-101 1940 Scrapped 1957
Soviet submarine S-13 1941

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