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SOVIET NAVY (USSR)

SUBMARINES

"Series XVI" submarines (project 97)

S-47

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
�-27 [S-27]   300 112 Yd (Krasnoye Sormovo Yd), Gorkiy 12.1940 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-28 [S-28]   301 112 Yd (Krasnoye Sormovo Yd), Gorkiy 3.1941 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-29 [S-29]   302 112 Yd (Krasnoye Sormovo Yd), Gorkiy 3.1941 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-30 [S-30]   303 112 Yd (Krasnoye Sormovo Yd), Gorkiy 3.1941 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-45 [S-45]   145 196 Yd (Sudomekh Wks), Leningrad 12/1940 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-46 [S-46]   146 196 Yd (Sudomekh Wks), Leningrad 12/1940 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-47 [S-47]   154 196 Yd (Sudomekh Wks), Leningrad 2.1941 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-48 [S-48]   155 196 Yd (Sudomekh Wks), Leningrad 2.1941 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-49 [S-49]   156 196 Yd (Sudomekh Wks), Leningrad 2.1941 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-58 [S-58]   371 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev 4.1941 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-59 [S-59]   372 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev 4.1941 --- --- suspended 7.1941
�-60 [S-60]   373 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev 4.1941 --- --- suspended 7.1941

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

856 / 1090

Length, m

77.7

Breadth, m

6.40

Draught, m

4.35

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 4D diesels / 2 P72/35 electric motors

Power, h. p.

4000 / 1100

Max speed, kts

19.4 / 8.7

Fuel, t

diesel oil 100

Endurance, nm(kts) 7500(8.4) / 132(2.4)

Armament

1 x 1 - 100/49 B-24, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 6 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 14)

Sensors Mars-16 hydrophone

Complement

46

Diving depth operational, m

80

Project history: Developing of series IX-bis with in twice more powerful diesels and in one and half time higher surfaced speed. With beginning of Great Patriotic War all six submarines were suspended and later scrapped.

 

Ivan Gogin, 2009-15