Soviet Navy — Submarine
Soviet submarine Kalev
Service
- as Kalev12 March 1937 — 1940484 days of the war
- as Kalev1940 — 1941727 days of the war
Kalev-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Kalev
- Builder
- Vickers and Armstrongs Ltd., United Kingdom
- Ordered
- 12 December 1934
- Laid down
- May 1935
- Launched
- 7 July 1936
- Commissioned
- 12 March 1937
- Fate
- Missing after 29 October 1941 (1941)
- Status
- Unknown
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)
Kalev was a Kalev-class submarine in service with the Soviet Navy. Her keel was laid at Vickers and Armstrongs Ltd., United Kingdom in May 1935. She entered service on 12 March 1937, having been launched on 7 July 1936.
Three ships of the class were built.
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 Kalev from 1940. She was in commission for 1,211 days of the Second World War.
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. (1200 hp)
- two Metropolitan-Vickers electric motors (790 hp)
- 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 Soviet submarine Kalev on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: SA-kuva — Talvisodan pikkujättiläinen (1999) p. 135, orginally from SA-kuva (Finnish Army Pictures) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons