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SUBMARINES

KAYMAN submarines

Krokodil 1912

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Аллигатор <Alligator>   Crichton Yd, St. Petersburg 10/1905 16/5/1908 12/1909 stricken 9/1924
Дракон <Drakon>   Crichton Yd, St. Petersburg 10/1905 27/6/1908 11/1911 captured by Germany 25/2/1918
Кайман <Kayman>   Crichton Yd, St. Petersburg 9/1905 11/12/1907 12/1909 captured by Germany 25/2/1918
Крокодил <Krokodil>   Crichton Yd, St. Petersburg 10/1905 23/7/1908 12/1909 captured by Germany 25/2/1918

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

409 / 482

Length, m

40.8

Breadth, m

4.27

Draught, m

5.03

No of shafts

2

Machinery

gasoline engines / electric motors

Power, h. p.

1200 / 400

Max speed, kts

10.5 / 7

Fuel, t

gasoline 15

Endurance, nm(kts) 700(7) / 22(7)

Armament

4 - 450 TT (2 bow, 2 stern, 4)

Complement

34

Diving depth operational, m 45

Ship project history: Built under the project of Lake. Differed by poor quality of construction and bad battle possibilities.

Modernizations: 1911, all: gasoline engines were shortened (3 cylinders were released in each) (800 / 400hp, 9 / 7kts); + 2 side drop-collars (6 torpedoes at all)

1913, Alligator, Kayman, Krokodil: + 1 x 1 - 47/43 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94

1913, Drakon: + 1 x 1 - 47/43 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 37/23 Hotchkiss

Naval service: All 4 boats were laid up in November 1916. Later they all were in a port of Helsingfors on long-term storage where they were captured by Germans and are taken out to Germany (except for Alligator) for dismantling on metal. Alligator staid at Petrograd port till 1924, and then was handed over on demolition.

Krokodil 1914

 

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