Soviet submarine B-427
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 10 April 1971 |
| Launched: | 22 June 1971 |
| Commissioned: | 4 December 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 1994 |
| Fate: | sold to a private company for use as a museum exhibit |
| Homeport: | Long Beach, California |
| Stricken: | 1994 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1952 tons surfaced, 2475 tons submerged |
| Length: | 299 feet 6 inches |
| Beam: | 24 feet 7 inches |
| Draft: | 20 feet |
| Powerplant: | three Kolomna 2D42M 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) diesel engines, three electric motors; two 1,350 hp (1,007 kW) and one 2,700 hp (2,010 kW), one 140 hp (104 kW) auxiliary motor |
| Propulsion: | three propeller shafts, each with six bladed propellers |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) surfaced, 15 knots (28 km/h) submerged, 8 knots (15 km/h) snorkeling |
| Range: | 20,000 miles surfaced at 8 knots (15 km/h), 11,000 miles (18,000 km) snorkeling, 380 miles (610 km) submerged at 2 knots (4 km/h) |
| Endurance: | three to five days submerged |
| Depth: | 270-280 m (885-918 ft) |
| Complement: | 12 officers, 10 midshipmen, 56 seamen |
| Armament: | ten 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, six forward and four stern |
B-427 was a project 641—also known by its NATO reporting name as the Foxtrot class—diesel-electric attack submarine of the Soviet Navy. The "B" (actually "Б") in her designation stands for большая (bolshaya, "large")—Foxtrots are among the largest non-nuclear submarines ever built. Its keel was laid down on 10 April 1971 at Sudomekh Shipyard of Leningrad. It was launched on 22 June 1971 and commissioned on 4 December 1971.
For twenty-two years B-427 patrolled the Pacific, protecting the ballistic missile submarine bastions of the Pacific Fleet. B-427 was based out of Vladivostok, Russia as part of the Pacific Fleet. It would have spent its entire career based out of Vladivostok except for a few temporary postings as part of the Soviet Submarine Squadron that was for a time based at the former US Navy base of Camron Bay, Vietnam. Such postings were normally for a period of between 8 to 12 months then a return to Vladivostok.
In 1989, B-427 was returning to Vladivostok from Vietnam when it ran into a typhoon. A mechanical breakdown that could not be fixed in time prevented the sub from diving. The storm battered the boat, destroying the light hull and damaging the ballast tanks and high pressure air bottles. B-427 was taken back to Vladivostok where it was repaired and refitted with a new light hull.
B-427 was decommissioned in 1994. On 25 July 1995, it was moved from Vladivostok to spend nearly three years at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. It left Sydney Harbor on 31 May 1998 for Long Beach, California, arriving on 25 June and tying up next to RMS Queen Mary. On 14 July, it opened to the public as an exhibit. During its sequence of owners it acquired the name "Scorpion," which it did not have during its commissioned career. (Note that some Web sites mistakenly state that the name of B-427 in the Russian language was "Podvodnaya Lodka." Подводная лодка, literally "underwater boat," is the translation of "submarine;" "scorpion" would be скорпион or skorpion.)
- Soviet submarine B-427 is at coordinates Coordinates:
[edit] See also
- B-39, a Foxtrot on display in San Diego, California.
[edit] References
- B-427’s Web page: http://www.russiansublongbeach.com/
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