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Krab  

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Краб [Krab]			Naval, Nikolayev	12/1909	25.8.1912	7/1915	captured by Germany 1.5.1918

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	533 / 737
Length, m	52.8
Breadth, m	4.34
Draught, m	3.54
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 gasoline engines / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1200 / 660
Max speed, kts	11.8 / 7.1
Fuel, t	gasoline
Endurance, nm(kts)	1700(8.6) / 82(4.1)
Armament	1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 2 - 450 TT (bow, 4), 60 mines
Complement	53
Diving depth operational, m	37

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Project history

Naletov design, ordered in 1908 she was the world's first submarine minelayer but not being completed until July 1915 and was overtaken by the German UC-boats. Single hull type. The mines were stowed horizontally in two tubes within the hull casing and were moved aft by electrically-powered chain conveyor.

Modernizations

1916: - 1 x 1 - 37/20; + 1 x 1 - 75/48 Canet

Naval service

On her first war cruise she sailed under commercial colours, laying a minefield off the Bosphorus in which the Turkish gunboat Isa Reis was damaged. She participated in a second mining of the Bosphorus in 1916 and later in that year laid a minefield off Varna which cost the Bulgarians the torpedo-boat Shumni lost and Strogi damaged. She was seized by the Germans 1.5.1918 and surrendered by them to the British in November. Scuttled off Sevastopol to avoid capture by the Reds. The wreck was raised in 1935 and scrapped.