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SHARK submarines (8, 1934 - 1938)


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Salmon 1938

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sealion N72   Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 5.1933 16.3.1934 12/1934 sunk as target 3.3.1945
Shark N54   Chatham DYd 6.1933 31.5.1934 12/1934 sunk 6.7.1940
Salmon S65 - N65   Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 6.1933 30.4.1934 3/1935 sunk 9.7.1940
Snapper N39   Chatham DYd 9.1933 25.10.1934 6/1935 sunk 12.2.1941
Seawolf N46   Scotts, Greenock 5.1934 28.11.1935 3/1936 BU 6.1945
Spearfish S69 - N69   Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 5.1935 21.4.1936 12/1936 sunk 1.8.1940
Sunfish N81   Chatham DYd 7/1935 30.9.1936 7.1937 to Soviet Union 5.1944 (В-1) (V-1)
Sterlet N22   Chatham DYd 7.1936 22.9.1937 4/1938 sunk 16.4.1940


Technical data


Max speed, kts, kn

14 / 10

Sunfish: 15 / 10
Displacement standard, t

670
Displacement normal, t

768 / 960
Length, m

63.6
Breadth, m

7.32
Draught, m

3.61
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 Admiralty diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.

1550 / 1440

Sunfish: 1900 / 1440
Fuel, t

diesel oil 39
Endurance, nm(kts)

3800(10) /
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk II, 1 x 1 - 12.7/62, 6 - 533 TT (bow; 12)
Electronic equipmenttype 129 sonar
Complement

39
Diving depth operational, m60


Standard scale images


<i>Seawolf</i> 1940
Seawolf 1940


Graphics


<i>Salmon</i> 1938
Salmon 1938


Project history

Development of "S" class with a little bit increased length at the expense of additional (1.9m) section of pressure hull. Sunfish had more powerful diesels. Submarines were built under 1931-1935 Programmes.

Modernizations

1940s, Seawolf, Sunfish: received ability to carry 12 M2 mines instead of torpedoes

1942-1944, all survived: + type 286W or type 291W radar

Naval service

Sterlet was sunk by DCs of German minesweeper М75 and submarine chasers UJ125, UJ126 and UJ128 in the North Sea 18.4.1940. Salmon was lost 9.7.1940 on a mine at Stavanger. Shark was badly damaged 5.7.1940 by German aircraft and minesweepers M1803, M1806 and M1807 and sunk next day. Spearfish was sunk 1.8.1940 by German submarine U34 in the North Sea. Snapper was sunk by DCs of German minesweepers М2, М13 and М25 in Atlantic 12.2.1941. Sealion was sunk as a target 3.3.1945.