Soviet Navy — Submarine
Soviet submarine S-1
Service
- as S-1, previously N-111 September 1936 — 23 June 1941661 days of the war
S-class submarine (Series IX)
Particulars
- Name
- S-1
- Builder
- Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad
- Laid down
- 25 December 1934
- Launched
- 8 August 1935
- Commissioned
- 11 September 1936
- Fate
- Scuttled in Liepāja on 23 June 1941, raised by Germans and used for tests before being sunk on 7 August 1943. (1941)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 827 long tons (840 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,053 long tons (1,070 t)
- Length
- 77.8 m (255.2 ft)
- Beam
- 6.4 m (21 ft)
- Draught
- 4 m (13.1 ft)
- Speed
- 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h, 22.4 mph)
- Range
- 9,500 nmi (17,594 km)
- Complement
- 46
S-1 was a submarine of the S-class submarine (Series IX), operated by the Soviet Navy. Her keel was laid at Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad on 25 December 1934. She entered service on 11 September 1936, having been launched on 8 August 1935.
She was one of 111 ships of her class.
The boat displaced 827 long tons surfaced and 1,053 long tons submerged. She measured 77.8 m (255 ft) long with a beam of 6.4 m (21 ft). Her designed speed was 19.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 46.
She was in commission for 661 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 23 June 1941. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × diesel engines
- 2 × electric motors
- 2 × shafts
- Armament
- 6 × torpedo tubes
- 2 × deck guns
Sister ships
- HMS P222
- HMS P551
- HMS Sabre (H18)
- HMS Safari
- HMS Saga
- HMS Sahib
- HMS Saladin
- HMS Salmon (N65)
- HMS Saracen (P247)
- HMS Sardonyx
- HMS Satyr (P214)
- HMS Saumarez (G12)
- HMS Sceptre (P215)
- HMS Scorcher
- HMS Scorpion (G72)
- HMS Scotsman (P243)
- HMS Scourge (G01)
- HMS Scout (1918)
- HMS Scythian
- HMS Sea Devil
- HMS Sea Nymph (P223)
- HMS Sea Rover
- HMS Sea Scout
- HMS Seadog
Sources
- Facts harvested from Soviet submarine S-1 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — scan from book M. E. Morozov, K. L. Kulagin «Eski» v boyu. Podvodnyye lodki Marinesko, Shchedrina, Lisina. — M.: Kollektsiya, Yauza, EKSMO, 2008. — 128 s. — ISBN 978-5-699-25627-3 (scan from book М. Э. Морозов, К. Л. Кулагин «Эски» в бою. Подводные лодки Маринеско, Щедрина, Лисина. — М.: Коллекция, Яуза, ЭКСМО, 2008. — 128 с. — ISBN 978-5-699-25627-3) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons