EML Lembit
Service
- as Lembit14 May 1937 — in service2,193 days of the war
- as Lembit1940 — 19792,071 days of the war
- as Lembit27 April 1992 — 19 May 2011
- Name
- EML Lembit
- Namesake
- Lembitu
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs
- Ordered
- 12 December 1934
- Laid down
- 19 June 1935
- Launched
- 7 July 1936
- Commissioned
- 14 May 1937
- Decommissioned
- 19 May 2011
- Recommissioned
- 2 August 1994
- Fate
- Pulled out of water on 21 May 2011, restored and now in a museum building. (2011)
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 665 long tons (676 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 853 long tons (867 t)
- Length
- 59.5 m (195.2 ft)
- Beam
- 7.5 m (24.6 ft)
- Draught
- 3.6 m (11.8 ft)
- Speed
- 13.5 knots (25 km/h, 15.5 mph)
- Complement
- 32
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
EML Lembit was a Kalev-class submarine. She was named for Lembitu. Vickers-Armstrongs laid her keel on 19 June 1935. She entered service on 14 May 1937, having been launched on 7 July 1936.
Her class ran to three ships.
The boat displaced 665 long tons surfaced and 853 long tons submerged. She measured 59.5 m (195 ft) long with a beam of 7.5 m (25 ft). Her designed speed was 13.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 32.
Her main battery was one 40 mm (1.6 in) guns.
She then passed to the Soviet Navy, serving as Lembit from 1940. She was in commission for 4,264 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 19 May 2011. She recommissioned on 2 August 1994.
She has been preserved on 21 May 2011.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- two diesel Vickers and Armstrongs Ltd. (600 hp each)
- two Metropolitan-Vickers electric motors (395 hp each)
- Armament
- 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- (bow, 8 torpedoes)
- 1 × 40 mm Bofors AA gun
- 1 × 7.7 mm Lewis AA machine gun
- 24 mines
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from EML Lembit on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
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