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"Series XIII-1938" minelaying submarines (L-20) (1941 - 1943)


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Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Л-20 [L-20], 6.1949- Б-20 [B-20]   302 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 402 Yd, Molotovsk 6.1938 14.4.1940 8.1942 test ship 2.1956, stricken 3.1958
Л-21 [L-21], 6.1949- Б-21 [B-21]   303 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad 6.1938 14.7.1940 8.1943 stricken 12.1955
Л-22 [L-22], 6.1949- Б-22 [B-22]   304 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 402 Yd, Molotovsk 12.1938 23.9.1939 8.1942 test ship 2.1956, stricken 5.1959
Л-23 [L-23]   353 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev // Poti port wks 10.1938 29.4.1940 10.1941 sunk 17.1.1944
Л-24 [L-24]   354 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev // Poti port wks 10.1938 17.12.1940 4.1942 sunk 17.12.1942
Л-25 [L-25]   355 198 Yd (Marti Yd), Nikolayev 10.1938 26.2.1941 --- foundered incomplete 18.12.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

1108 / 1400

Length, m

85.3

Breadth, m

7.00

Draught, m

4.05

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 1D diesels / 2 PG-9 electric motors

Power, h. p.

4000 / 1300

Max speed, kts

18 / 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), 20 mines

Electronic equipmentMars-16 hydrophone
Complement

56

Diving depth operational, m

80



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<i>L-20</i> 1940
L-20 1940


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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.

L-25 was never completed; 20.12.1944 she foundered during a storm during inter-base passage.

Modernizations

1943, L-20, L-22; 1944, L-21: + type 129 sonar

Naval service

L-23 was lost between 15 and 29.1.1944 off Cape Tarhankut, probably on a mine. L-24 was lost between 12 and 31.12.1942 on a mine off Cape Kaliakra.