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

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ryś			A C de la Loire, Nantes, France	5/1927	22.4.1929	8/1931	interned in Sweden 17.9.1939 - 10.1945, BU 1956
Wilk			A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre, France	1927	12.4.1929	10/1931	BU 1954
Żbik		81	CNF, Caen, France	1927	14.6.1930	2/1932	interned in Sweden 27.9.1939 - 10.1945, BU 1956

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	980 / 1248
Length, m	78.5
Breadth, m	5.90
Draught, m	4.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Normand-Vickers diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1800 / 1200
Max speed, kts	14.5 / 9.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 139
Endurance, nm(kts)	7000(10) / 100(5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 100/40 Schneider QF, 1 x 1 - 40/37 2pdr QF Mk III, 6 - 550 TT (4 bow, 1 x 2 trainable, 10), 38 mines
Complement	54
Diving depth operational, m	80

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Project history

Built under "small programme" of 1924. Submarines were ordered 1.12.1926 in France and represented increased variant of French submarines of Saphir class.

Differed good seaworthiness, but were noisy, oil fuel tanks in an outer hull at the slightest damage leaked and fuel was polluted. Minelaying system of Normand-Funeau was complex and had low reliability. Four TTs took places in the pressure hull, two more out of a pressure hull in aft trainable mount. Double-hulled. Self-sufficiency was 35 days.

Modernizations

1935, all: - 1 x 1 - 40/39; + 1 x 2 - 13.2/76

1940, Wilk: + hydrophone

Naval service

Ryś and Żbik were interned in Sweden 17 and 27.9.1939 respectively. After war in October, 1945 they returned to Poland and were broken up in 1956.

Wilk at beginning of war escaped to Britain and arrived Rosyth 20.9.1939. She was used for training since September, 1940 and 2.5.1942 was laid up into reserve. In 1951 Wilk returned to Poland.



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