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L-18 1943  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Л-13 [L-13], 6.1949- Б-13 [B-13]		273	189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok	4.1935	2.8.1936	10.1938	stricken 3.1958
Л-14 [L-14], 6.1949- Б-14 [B-14]		274	189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok	4.1935	20.12.1936	10.1938	hulk 2.1959
Л-15 [L-15], 6.1949- Б-15 [B-15]		305	198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok	11.1935	26.12.1936	11.1938	hulk 9.1953
Л-16 [L-16]		306	198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok	11.1935	9.7.1937	12.1938	sunk 11.10.1942
Л-17 [L-17], 6.1949- Б-17 [B-17]		307	198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok	1.1936	5.11.1937	6.1939	hulk 4.1958
Л-18 [L-18], 6.1949- Б-18 [B-18]		275	189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok	12.1935	12.5.1938	10.1939	hulk 4.1958
Л-19 [L-19]		276	189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok	12.1935	25.5.1938	11.1939	lost 24-29.8.1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	1120 / 1425
Length, m	85.3
Breadth, m	7.00
Draught, m	4.05
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 42BM6 diesels / 2 PG-9 electric motors
Power, h. p.	2200 / 1300
Max speed, kts	15 / 9
Fuel, t	diesel oil 143
Endurance, nm(kts)	10000(10) / 150(2.5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 100/49 B-24, 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 8 - 533 TT (6 bow, 2 ext aft, 18), 18 mines
Electronic equipment	Merkuriy or Mars-A or Mars-DM or Mars-ShM hydrophone
Complement	56
Diving depth operational, m	80

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Project history

Submarines of "combined" type storing powerful torpedo armament at possibility to laid mines. In construction experience of building of D class submarines was used, and also decisions borrowed from raised British subarine L55. Saddle-tank hull. Mines were carried in two horizontal watertight tubes and laid astern.     Submarines of II series were built for Baltic and Black Seas. In 1934 for Pacific Fleet there was begun building of XI series, in which construction a number of changes was brought. These submarines were laid down on European shipyards, then taken apart and transported by railways for completion to the Far East. By experience of their building XIII series submarines were built. Their construction was simplified for convenience of transportation and acceleration of outfitting works. Besides, for XIII series the new hull was developed on the basis of IX series submarine drawings (diameter of a pressure hull was moderated from 4.85 to 4.6m), and also 2 TT were installed aft out of a pressure hull, that has entailed reduction of mines stowage from 20 to 18. Series XIII-38 differed from previous by new diesels and a number of other details, mines stowage was again increased to 20. Maximal diving depth for II and XI series was 90 m; for subsequent 100m.

Modernizations

1940-1943, all: - hydrophone; + Mars-16 hydrophone

1943, L-15: + type 286M radar

1944, L-14, L-17, L-19; 1945, L-18: + type 129 sonar

Naval service

L-16 was sunk 11.10.1942 by Japanese submarine I25 in 300nm NW off San Francisco. L-19 was lost 23-24.8.1945 NW of Hokkaido, possibly on a mine.