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"Series V-bis" submarines (STERLYAD`) (1934 - 1935)


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Shch-201

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Стерлядь [Sterlyad'], 9.1934- Щ-113 [Shch-113], 6.1949- С-113 [S-113]   243/187 194 Yd (Marti Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 10.1932 12.12.1933 9.1934 stricken 9.1954
Севрюга [Sevryuga], 9.1934- Щ-114 [Shch-114], 6.1949- С-114 [S-114]   244/188 194 Yd (Marti Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 10.1932 1934 9.1934 stricken 12.1955
Щ-115 [Shch-115] (ex-Скат [Skat]), 6.1949- С-115 [S-115]   225 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 10.1932 4.4.1934 10.1934 stricken 9.1954
Щ-116 [Shch-116] (ex-Осётр [Osyotr]), 6.1949- С-116 [S-116]   242 194 Yd (Marti Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 5.1933 1934 1.1935 stricken 9.1954
Щ-117 [Shch-117] (ex-Макрель [Makrel']), 6.1949- С-117 [S-117]   226 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 10.1932 15.4.1934 12.1934 lost 15.12.1952
Щ-118 [Shch-118] (ex-Кефаль [Kefal']), 6.1949- С-118 [S-118]   227 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 10.1932 1934 12.1934 stricken 2.1956
Щ-119 [Shch-119] (ex-Белуга [Beluga]), 6.1949- С-119 [S-119]   241 194 Yd (Marti Yd), Leningrad // 202 Yd (Dalzavod Yd), Vladivostok 5.1933 7.5.1934 2.1935 stricken 2.1956
Щ-120 [Shch-120] (ex-Навага [Navaga]), 6.1949- С-120 [S-120]   185 194 Yd (Marti Yd), Leningrad // 368 Yd (Kirov Yd), Khabarovsk 4.1933 6.1934 1.1935 stricken 2.1956
Щ-201 [Shch-201] (ex-Сазан [Sazan]), 6.1949- С-201 [S-201]   183/1026 194 Yd (Marti Yd), Leningrad // 200 Yd (61 Kommunar Yd), Nikolayev 8.1933 3.4.1934 8.1935 stricken 12.1955
Щ-202 [Shch-202] (ex-Сельдь [Seld']), 6.1949- С-202 [S-202]   184/1027 194 Yd (Marti Yd), Leningrad // 200 Yd (61 Kommunar Yd), Nikolayev 9.1933 25.5.1934 9.1935 auxiliary 2.1956
Щ-203 [Shch-203] (ex-Камбала [Kambala])   228/1028 189 Yd (Ordzhonikidze Yd), Leningrad // 200 Yd (61 Kommunar Yd), Nikolayev 3.1933 29.5.1934 9.1935 sunk 29.8.1943
Щ-305 [Shch-305] (ex-Линь [Lin'], ex-Воинствующий Безбожник [Voinstvuyushchiy Bezbozhnik])   186 194 Yd (Marti Yd), Leningrad 11.1932 31.12.1933 12.1934 sunk 5.11.1942
Щ-308 [Shch-308] (ex-Сёмга [Syomga])   550/2 112 Yd (Krasnoye Sormovo Yd), Gorkiy 11.1932 28.4.1933 11.1935 sunk 27.10.1942


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

Sterlyad`, Sevryuga, Shch-115 - 120: 601 / 722

Shch-201 - 203: 607 / 750

Shch-305, 308: 586 / 702

Length, m

Sterlyad`, Sevryuga, Shch-115 - 120: 58.0

Shch-201 - 203, 305, 308: 58.8

Breadth, m

6.20

Draught, m

Sterlyad`, Sevryuga, Shch-115 - 120: 3.91

Shch-201 - 203: 4.30

Shch-305, 308: 4.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 38B8 diesels / 2 PGV-8 electric motors

Power, h. p.

1370 / 800

Max speed, kts

Sterlyad`, Sevryuga, Shch-115 - 120: 12 / 8

Shch-201 - 203: 11.9 / 7.5

Shch-305, 308: 12.9 / 7

Fuel, t

diesel oil 58

Endurance, nm(kts)4200(8.8) / 100(2)
Armament

Sterlyad`, Sevryuga, Shch-115 - 120: 1 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 1 x 1 - 12.7/79, 6 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 10)

Shch-201 - 203, 305, 308: 2 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 6 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 10)

Electronic equipmentMerkuriy or Mars-A or Mars-DM or Mars-ShM hydrophone
Complement

37 - 40

Diving depth operational, m

75



Standard scale images


<i>Shch-305</i> 1940
Shch-305 1940


Graphics


<i> Shch-201</i>
Shch-201


Project history

Well-known "Shchukas" ("pikes"): the most mass series of Soviet WWII-era submarines. They were designed since 1928 as patrol small (later medium) submarines for Baltic. The big effect on the design was rendered by raised British submarine L55 from which there was borrowed architectural type: saddle-tank with bulge tanks, and a hull form. III series submarines differed by only one 45mm gun, all subsequent submarines received two, nevertheless, weakness of artillery armament during war remained one of the main lacks of the project.

Submarines were built in six series, but intra-serial differences were insignificant. Intended for Pacific V series (originally III-bis) were built taking into account requirements to transportation by railways and subsequent assembling; they had other division on compartments, CT form and were built with wide application of welding. On V-bis (originally VII) series the light hull and CT form were changed. Maximal diving depth for all series was 90m.

Modernizations

1940 - 1943, some boats among Shch-201 - 203, 305 and 308: - 1 x 1 - 45/43; + 1 x 1 - 12.7/79.

1940-1941, Shch-201, Shch-202, Shch-203; 1941-1942, Shch-305, Shch-308; 1941-1943, Shch-113, Shch-114, Shch-115, Shch-116, Shch-117, Shch-118, Shch-119, Shch-120: - hydrophone; + Mars-12 hydrophone

1942 - 1945, Shch-115, Shch-116: + 20 mines

1944, Shch-202; 1945, Shch-113, Shch-114, Shch-115: + type 129 sonar

Naval service

Shch-203 was sunk 26.8.1943 by Italian midget submarine CB4 at Sevastopol. Shch-305 was sunk 5.11.1942 by Finnish submarine Vetehinen off Alands. Shch-308 was lost between 20 and 23.10.42 in Gulf of Finland, possibly on a mine.

Shch-118 sunk after torpedoes explosion on board of Shch-138 18.7.1942 at Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, later salvaged and commissioned again. S-117 was lost 15-16.12.1952 during training voyage.