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Narval 1915  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Нарвал [Narval]			Nevsky Wks, St. Petersburg // Nikolayev	12/1911	24.4.1915	9/1915	captured by Germany 1.5.1918 (US5)
Кит [Kit]			Nevsky Wks, St. Petersburg // Nikolayev	12/1911	5/1915	10/1915	captured by Germany 1.5.1918 (US7)
Кашалот [Kashalot]			Nevsky Wks, St. Petersburg // Nikolayev	12/1911	4.9.1915	5/1916	captured by Germany 1.5.1918

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	620 - 621 / 990 - 994
Length, m	70.2
Breadth, m	6.50
Draught, m	3.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	640 / 490
Max speed, kts	Narval: 11.5 / 6 Kit, Kashalot: 10.8 / 5
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(6.5) / 103(4.2)
Armament	Narval: 2 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 12 - 450 TT (2 bow, 2 stern, 8 Drzewiecki drop-collars) Kit, Kashalot: 1 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 1 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 12 - 450 TT (2 bow, 2 stern, 8 Drzewiecki drop-collars)
Complement	41
Diving depth operational, m	50

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Project history

Part of the 1911 Programme, designated for the Black Sea Fleet. Holland design (Type 31A), double hull type, diving limit 100m, diving time 1 minute. Unlike contemporary Russian submarines these were fitted with a crush diving tank, gravitionally filled ballast tanks and watertight bulkheads built in. Undoubtedly the best submarine type ever built for the Imperial Russian Navy. The original design provided 2 diesels 850bhp each and 16kts surface speed but these were not fitted because of the notorious shortage of diesels.

Modernizations

1916, Kashalot; 1917, Narval: - 8 - 450 TT (Drzewiecki); + 4 - 450 TT (Drzewiecki-Podgorny)

1917, Kit: - 1 x 1 - 57/40, 8 - 450 TT (Drzewiecki); + 1 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 4 - 450 TT (Drzewiecki-Podgorny)

Naval service

Kit and Narval were captured 1.5.1918 by the Germans together with Kashalot and surrendered to the Allies in November 1918. Scuttled off Sevastopol to prevent capture by the advancing Reds.