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US1 submarines (1916 - 1917 / 1918)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
US1 (ex-Буревестник [Burevestnik])     Naval, Nikolayev, Russia 10.1915 28.11.1916 10.1917 // --- never commissioned, to White Russians 11.1918
US2 (ex-Орлан [Orlan])     Naval, Nikolayev, Russia 10.1915 25.11.1916 9.1917 // --- to White Russians 11.1918
US3 (ex-Утка [Utka])     Baltic Wks, Nikolayev, Russia 8.1915 10.1916 12.1917 // 8.1918 never commissioned, to White Russians 11.1918
US4 (ex-Гагара [Gagara])     Baltic Wks, Nikolayev, Russia 9.1915 7.10.1916 7.1917 // --- never commissioned, to White Russians 11.1918


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

650 / 785

Length, m

68.0

Breadth, m

4.48

Draught, m

4.12

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Kharkov diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

2500 / 900

Max speed, kts

16 / 9

Fuel, t

diesel oil 54

Endurance, nm(kts)1900 - 2500(10) / 30(8)
Armament

US1, 2: 1 x 1 - 75/47 Canet, 1 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 12 - 450 TT (2 bow, 2 stern, 8 side drop-collars, 12)

US3, 4: 2 x 1 - 75/47 Canet, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 12 - 450 TT (2 bow, 2 stern, 8 side drop-collars, 12)

Complement

33 - 44

Diving depth operational, m

50



Standard scale images


<i>US1</i> 1918
US1 1918


Project history

Russian submarines of Bars class captured at Sevastopol 1.5.1918. Only one was commissioned and all were captured in November 1918 by British and French troops and transferred to White Russians.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.