Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Soviet Navy — Submarine

Soviet submarine Shch-307

Series V-bis-2 Shchuka-class submarine

Soviet submarine Shch-307
Alex Rave ( talk ) — Own work — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons Plate Cabin of a soviet submarine ShCh-307, which exhibits in museum at Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow, Russia

Service

  1. Soviet Navy as Shch-3074 August 1935 — 23 April 19482,193 days of the war
Series V-bis-2 Shchuka-class submarine Particulars
Name
Shch-307
Builder
Baltic Works, Leningrad
Ordered
1933
Laid down
6 November 1933
Launched
1 August 1934
Commissioned
4 August 1935
Decommissioned
23 April 1948
Struck
8 April 1957
Fate
Scrapped after 8 April 1957, Conning tower preserved as memorial in Moscow (1957)
Status
Preserved

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced
582 long tons (591 t)
Displacement, submerged
697 long tons (708 t)
Length
58.75 m (192.7 ft)
Beam
6.2 m (20.3 ft)
Draught
4.22 m (13.8 ft)
Speed
13.5 knots (25 km/h, 15.5 mph)
Range
5,100 nmi (9,445 km)
Complement
39
Main gun
45 mm (1.8 in)

Shch-307 was a Series V-bis-2 Shchuka-class submarine of the Soviet Navy. Baltic Works, Leningrad laid her keel on 6 November 1933. Launched on 1 August 1934, she entered service on 4 August 1935.

The boat displaced 582 long tons surfaced and 697 long tons submerged. She measured 58.8 m (193 ft) long with a beam of 6.2 m (20 ft). Her designed speed was 13.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 39.

Her main battery was two 45 mm (1.8 in) guns.

She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 23 April 1948. She was struck from the register on 8 April 1957.

She has been preserved on 8 April 1957.

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-shaft diesel electric
  • 2 diesel engines
  • 2 electric motors
Power
  • 1370 PS (diesel)
  • 800 PS (electric)
Armament
  • 4 × bow 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • 2 × stern 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • 2 × 45 mm deck guns

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