Som class

Som class

Sterljad

Ship data country  Russia Ship type Submarine Shipyard Electric Boat Company , Elizabeth, New Jersey Nevsky Shipyard , Saint Petersburg Construction period 1904 to 1907 Units built 7th

Ship dimensions and crew length 20 m ( Lüa ) width 3.5 m Draft Max. 2.9 m displacement surfaced: 105 t submerged: 124 t   crew 24

Machine system machine 1 × petrol engine with 160 HP 1 × electric motor with 70 hp propeller 1

Mission data submarine Radius of action 585 nm surfaced 42 nm submerged sm Top speed submerged 6 kn (11 km / h) Top speed surfaced 8.5 kn (16 km / h)

Armament 1 × torpedo tube (bow) ø 457 mm 1 x 37-mm - deck gun (1915)

The Som class ( Russian Сом 'Wels' ) was a class of gasoline-electric small submarines of the Imperial Russian Navy . The boats were built by the tsarist navy from 1904 as part of a fleet emergency program due to the aggravated situation in the Far East with Japan at the Nevsky shipyard in Saint Petersburg . The type boat of the class was the Som (ex- Fulton ) built by the American Electric Boat Company .

history

The Fulton in the dock

In 1901, Electric Boat built the Fulton , designed by John Philip Holland , the prototype of the later Plunger class (Holland VII boat). This was delivered partially dismantled to Kronstadt , reassembled there and launched on June 29, 1904. The boat named Som became the type boat of the submarine class of the same name, built under license in St. Petersburg .

description

Torpedo tube of the identical British Holland 1

The Som- class boats were single-hulled boats with a spindle-shaped pressure hull and a propeller located centrally at the stern . The hull was divided into three sections: bow section, control center and engine room in the stern. In the bow section, the only torpedo tube was in the middle, in the cross section of the vertical and transverse axis. The two reserve torpedoes were stored in the headquarters above the main ballast tanks . The propulsion system consisted of a Deutz - gasoline engine and an electric motor . The two batteries with 2 × 20 cells housed in the bilge of the engine room enabled up to 15 hours of underwater travel. The boats had a cross-shaped stern rudder system , there were no separate depth rudders as in modern boats. The low tower was streamlined .

The boats were sufficiently small to be able to move them to the Far East on the Trans-Siberian Railway with special low-loader wagons .

units

Surname	Trans.	Launch	commitment	Decommissioning	Whereabouts	comment
Som ( Сом )	catfish	1904	Black Sea Fleet , later Baltic Fleet	May 23, 1916	before Sweden	sunk after collision
Beluga ( Белуга )	Beluga whale	1905	Baltic fleet	February 25, 1918	Tallinn	self-sunk
Losos ( Лосось )	salmon	1905	Black Sea Fleet	1919	Sevastopol	self-sunk
Peskar ( Пескарь )	Gudgeon	1905	Baltic fleet	February 25, 1918	Tallinn	self-sunk
Shchuka ( Щука )	pike	April 1905	Baltic fleet	February 25, 1918	Tallinn	self-sunk
Sterljad ( Стерлядь )	Sterlet	1905	Baltic fleet	February 25, 1918	Tallinn	self-sunk
Sudak ( Судак )	Pikeperch	1907	Black Sea Fleet	1919	Sevastopol	self-sunk

literature

• Robert Gardiner: Conway's all the world's fighting ships 1906-1921 . Conway Maritime Press, 1985, ISBN 0-85177-245-5 .
• Norman Polmar, Jurrien Noot: Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718–1990 . Naval Institute Press, 1991, ISBN 0-87021-570-1 , pp. 46 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

See also

• Project 641B Som

Web links

Commons : Som class  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Russian Type 7-P Submarines. In: reocities.com. Retrieved July 29, 2015 . 
• Sunken submarine "Som". First video appeared on the Internet. In: Sputnik Germany. de.sputniknews.com, accessed on August 6, 2015 (with video in very good quality). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norman Polmar, Jurrien Noot: Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718-1990 . Naval Institute Press, 1991, p. 22 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ↑ Штурм Глубины. In: deepstorm.ru. Retrieved July 28, 2015 (Russian). 
3. ↑ Polmar / Noot, p. 228