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Krokodil 1914 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Дракон [Drakon]		1731	Crichton Yd, St. Petersburg	11.1905	27.6.1908	11.1910	captured by Germany 25.2.1918
Кайман [Kayman]		1732	Crichton Yd, St. Petersburg	9.1905	11.12.1907	12.1909	captured by Germany 25.2.1918
Крокодил [Krokodil]		1733	Crichton Yd, St. Petersburg	12.1905	23.7.1908	12.1909	captured by Germany 25.2.1918
Аллигатор [Alligator]		1734	Crichton Yd, St. Petersburg	10.1905	16.5.1908	12.1909	stricken 9.1924

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	409 / 480 - 482
Length, m	40.7 - 40.8
Breadth, m	3.85
Draught, m	4.88
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 gasoline engines / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1200 / 200
Max speed, kts	10.7 / 7 - 8.8
Fuel, t	gasoline 15
Endurance, nm(kts)	750 - 950(5 - 6.5) / 40 - 60(4 - 5)
Armament	4 - 450 TT (2 bow, 2 stern, 4)
Complement	34
Diving depth operational, m	45 - 50 max

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Project history

Built under the design of Lake. Differed by poor quality of construction and bad battle possibilities.

Modernizations

1911, all: gasoline engines were shortened (3 cylinders were released in each) (800 / 400hp, 9 / 7kts); + 2 side drop-collars (6 torpedoes at all)

1913, Alligator, Kayman, Krokodil: + 1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94

1913, Drakon: + 1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Naval service

All 4 boats were laid up in November 1916. Later they all were in a port of Helsingfors on long-term storage where they were captured by Germans and are taken out to Germany (except for Alligator) for dismantling on metal. Alligator staid at Petrograd port till 1924, and then was handed over on demolition.

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