NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
АПЛ [APL], Пигмей [Pigmey] + 9 incomplete units	196 Yd (Sudomekh Wks), Leningrad: APL, Pigmey, 9 incomplete	None (APL was launched 7.1935, Pigmey was launched 10.1936)	cancelled 1937: 9 boats APL (captured by Germany 29.6.1942 on the stocks), Pigmey (captured by Germany 29.6.1942 on the stocks)	none	none

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	APL: 18 / Pigmey: 18.6 /
Length, m	APL: 16.0 Pigmey: 16.4
Breadth, m	APL: 2.65 Pigmey: 2.62
Draught, m
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 diesel / 1 electric motor
Power, h. p.	36 /
Max speed, kts	6 / 5
Fuel, t	---
Endurance, nm(kts)	APL: 150(4) / 20(2.5) Pigmey: 290(4) / 60(2.5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 2 - 450 TT (side fwd, 2)
Complement	4
Diving depth operational, m	30

Standard scale images

Project history

Single-hulled midget submarine. APL was experimental submarine. Pigmey could be a lead boat of the class. Both submarines were actively used on trials but thank to many lacks and problems were never commissioned by Navy and later captured by Germans at Sevastopol.