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A.G.14

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
А.Г.11 [A.G.11]			Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Baltic Wks, Petrograd	4.1916	7.1916	9.1916	scuttled 3.4.1918
А.Г.12 [A.G.12]			Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Baltic Wks, Petrograd	4.1916	7.1916	9.1916	scuttled 3.4.1918
А.Г.13 [A.G.13], 7.1917- А.Г.16 [A.G.16]			Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Baltic Wks, Petrograd	4.1916	13.9.1916	11.1916	scuttled 3.4.1918
А.Г.14 [A.G.14]			Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Baltic Wks, Petrograd	4.1916	9.1916	11.1916	sunk 6.7.1917
А.Г.15 [A.G.15]			Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Baltic Wks, Petrograd	4.1916	9.1916	11.1916	scuttled 3.4.1918
А.Г.21 [A.G.21], 2.1931- Металлист [Metallist], 9.1934- А-5 [A-5]	16	5	Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev	4.1917	10.1917	1918	commissioned by Whites, captured by Britain and France 24.11.1918, scuttled, salvaged, commissioned 12.1930, charging plant 8.1945
А.Г.22 [A.G.22]		6	Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev	4.1917	1918	8.1919	commissioned by Whites, interned by France 12.1920
Им. тов. Троцкого [Im. tov. Trotskogo] (ex-А.Г.23 [A.G.23]), 12.1922- Незаможный [Nezamozhnyy], 6.1923- Шахтёр [Shakhtyor], 9.1934- А-1 [A-1]	12	7	Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev	5.1917	1.6.1920	10.1920	scuttled 26.6.1942
Им. тов. Луначарского [Im. tov. Lunacharskogo] (ex-А.Г.24 [A.G.24]), 12.1922- Коммунист [Kommunist], 9.1934- А-2 [A-2], 6.1949- М-52 [M-52]	13	16	Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev	11.1919	2.4.1921	7.1921	stricken 11.1950
А.Г.25 [A.G.25], 3.1923- Марксист [Marxist], 9.1934- А-3 [A-3]	14	17	Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev	7.1921	5.4.1922	5.1922	sunk 28.10.1943
Политработник [Politrabotnik] (ex-Им. тов. Каменева [Im. tov. Kameneva], ex-А.Г.26 [A.G.26]), 9.1934- А-4 [A-4]	15	18	Electric Boat, Vancouver, Canada // Naval, Nikolayev	10.1920	24.2.1923	7.1923	stricken 2.1947

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	A.G.11-15: 356 / 441 A.G.21-23: 355 / 434 A.G.24-26: 361 / 440
Length, m	A.G.11-15, 21-23: 45.8 A.G.24-26: 46.0
Breadth, m	A.G.11-15: 4.81 A.G.21-23: 4.88 A.G.24-26: 4.80
Draught, m	A.G.11-15: 3.76 A.G.21-23: 3.80 A.G.24-26: 3.84
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	A.G.11-15: 480 / 620 A.G.21-25: 960 / 620 A.G.26: 240 / 620
Max speed, kts	A.G.11-15: 12.5 - 13 / 10.5 - 10.8 A.G.21-23: 11.5 / 10 A.G.24, 25: 12 / 10
Fuel, t	diesel oil 15
Endurance, nm(kts)	A.G.11-15: 2580(11) / 100(5) A.G.21-23: 2450(11) / 100(5) A.G.24, 25: 2400(11) / 100(5)
Armament	A.G.11-15: 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 4 - 450 TT (bow, 8) AG.21-26: 1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 4 - 450 TT (bow, 8)
Complement	24
Diving depth operational, m	50

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Project history

American Holland type boats, originally built under British order but bought up by Russia, shipped in sections to Vladivostok, and then to Petrograd and Nikolaev by railways. Single-hulled, with five watertight compartments. Intended for operations on approaches to enemies ports and bases.

Unique Soviet WWII submarines, with 450mm TTs, and TT cover construction allowed to launch no more than two torpedoes in one salvo. Theoretically they could carry 4 spare torpedoes, but because of deterioration of habitability conditions till November, 1943 it did not use. As a whole their constructions differed by very high quality, reliability and damage tolerance, were characterised as rather successful submarines. Shallow diving depth (maximal was 50m) was the basic lack.

Modernizations

1929, Shakhtyor, Kommunist, Politrabotnik; 1935, A-3, 1938, A-5: electric motors were replaced by new ones (480hp, 8kts submerged); - 1 x 1 - 47/40; + 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, torpedoes stowage decreased to 4.

Naval service

During operations in September, 1917 A.G.14 was lost off Libava for unknown cause (probably mined). Remaining Baltic A.G.11, 12, 15, 16 were blown up and scuttled by crews in April, 1918 at Helsingfors to avoid capture by German troops. A.G.21 was scuttled 26.4.1919 at Sevastopol by British troops, but in 1928 raised and entered service. A.G.22 was withdrawn by Whites to Bizerte, remaining submarines were completed after revolution.

A-1 26.6.1942 was blown up at Sevastopol. A-3 was lost after 28.10.1943; presumably on a mine in Kalamitsky Bay.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.