Soviet Navy — Submarine
Soviet submarine S-2
Service
- as S-223 September 1936 — 2 January 1940123 days of the war
S-class submarine (Series IX)
Particulars
- Name
- S-2
- Launched
- 7 November 1935
- Commissioned
- 23 September 1936
- Fate
- Mined in Sea of Åland, 2 January 1940
By mine (1940) - 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-2 was a submarine of the S-class submarine (Series IX) in service with the Soviet Navy. Launched on 7 November 1935, she entered service on 23 September 1936.
Her class ran to 111 ships.
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 123 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 2 January 1940 by mine. 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-2 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Post of Moldova — http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/moldova/ps2008/index.html , http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/moldova/2008/ — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons