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SUBMARINES

KALEV class submarines

Lembit 1940

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Kalev   Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 5/1935 7/7/1936 3/1937 to USSR 13/8/1940 (Калев <Kalev>)
Lembit   Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 5/1935 7/7/1936 4/1937 to USSR 13/8/1940 (Лембит <Lembit>)

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

665 / 853

Length, m

59.5

Breadth, m

7.24

Draught, m

3.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Vickers diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

1200 / 790

Max speed, kts

13.5 / 8.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 31

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/43 Škoda, 4 - 533 TT (bow, 8), 20 mines

Complement

38

Diving depth operational, m

75

Modernizing Notes: none.

Fate Notes: Both submarines were incorporated into the Red Navy with all other Estonian ships 13/8/1940.

Kalev 1937

 

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