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FOREL midget submarine (1904)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

Форель [Forel']

Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany: Forel'

9/1904: Forel'

Forel' (30.5.1910)

none

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Technical data


Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

17 / 18

Length, m

12.5

Breadth, m

1.65 without torpedoes

Draught, m1.10
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 electric motor

Power, h. p.

65

Max speed, kts

4.5 / 3.5

Fuel, t

battery only

Endurance, nm(kts)20(4.5) / 18(3.5)
Armament

2 - 381 TC

Complement3 - 4
Diving depth operational, m

10



Standard scale images


<i>Forel'</i> 1904
Forel' 1904


Project history

Bought from the German Krupp Wks who built her as a private venture to attract the attention of the German Admiralstab towards underwater warfare. Arrived Vladivostok in August 1904 and operational from September but did not venture on any patrol.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

30.5.1910 Forel' foundered under tow of submarine Bychok with empty batteries. She was salvaged later that day but never launched again. She was reclassified as auxiliary in 1910 and stricken 13.6.1911.