Soviet submarine S-56

S-class submarine (Series IX-bis)

Service

Soviet Navy as S-5620 October 1941 — 14 March 19551,413 days of the war

S-class submarine (Series IX-bis) Particulars

Name: S-56
Builder: Dalzavod, Vladivostok
Laid down: 24 November 1936
Launched: 25 December 1939
Commissioned: 20 October 1941
Decommissioned: 14 March 1955
Fate: Stricken on 9 May 1975 and became a museum ship in Vladivostok (1975)
Status: Preserved

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 842 long tons (856 t)
Displacement, submerged: 1,073 long tons (1,090 t)
Length: 77.8 m (255.2 ft)
Beam: 6.4 m (21 ft)
Draught: 4 m (13.1 ft)
Speed: 18.9 knots (34.9 km/h, 21.7 mph)
Range: 9,500 nmi (17,594 km)
Complement: 45

S-56 was a submarine of the S-class submarine (Series IX-bis) of the Soviet Navy. Dalzavod, Vladivostok laid her keel on 24 November 1936. Launched on 25 December 1939, she entered service on 20 October 1941.

She was one of 111 ships of her class.

The boat displaced 842 long tons surfaced and 1,073 long tons submerged. She measured 77.8 m (255 ft) long with a beam of 6.4 m (21 ft). Her designed speed was 18.9 knots, and she carried a complement of 45.

She was in commission for 1,413 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 14 March 1955.

She has been preserved on 9 May 1975.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 × diesel engines
2 × electric motors
2 × shafts
Armament: 6 × torpedo tubes
2 × deck guns

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from Soviet submarine S-56 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Uwe Brodrecht — 053 - Wladiwostok 2015 — CC BY-SA 2.0 — Wikimedia Commons