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APL midget submarine, PIGMEY midget submarine


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

АПЛ [APL], Пигмей [Pigmey] + 9 incomplete units

196 Yd (Sudomekh Wks), Leningrad: APL, Pigmey, 9 incomplete

None

(APL was launched 7.1935, Pigmey was launched 10.1936)

cancelled 1937: 9 boats

APL (captured by Germany 29.6.1942 on the stocks), Pigmey (captured by Germany 29.6.1942 on the stocks)

none

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Technical data


Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

APL: 18 /

Pigmey: 18.6 /

Length, m

APL: 16.0

Pigmey: 16.4

Breadth, m

APL: 2.65

Pigmey: 2.62

Draught, m 
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 diesel / 1 electric motor

Power, h. p.

36 /

Max speed, kts

6 / 5

Fuel, t

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Endurance, nm(kts)

APL: 150(4) / 20(2.5)

Pigmey: 290(4) / 60(2.5)

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 2 - 450 TT (side fwd, 2)

Complement4
Diving depth operational, m

30



Standard scale images


<i>Pigmey</i>
Pigmey


Project history

Single-hulled midget submarine. APL was experimental submarine. Pigmey could be a lead boat of the class. Both submarines were actively used on trials but thank to many lacks and problems were never commissioned by Navy and later captured by Germans at Sevastopol.