Russian submarine Narval under construction |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Narval class |
| Builders: | Nikolayev Dockyard |
| Operators: | Imperial Russian Navy Ukrainian Navy |
| In commission: | 1914–1919 |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Lost: | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Submarine |
| Displacement: | 621 tons surfaced 994 tons submerged |
| Length: | 70.1 m (230.0 ft) |
| Beam: | 6.5 m (21.3 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.5 m (11.5 ft) |
| Installed power: | 640 hp (480 kW) (diesel) 900 hp (670 kW) (electric) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: |
9.5 kn (17.6 km/h) (surfaced) |
| Range: |
12 days, 3500 miles at 6.5 knots |
| Complement: | 47 |
| Armament: |
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The Narval class were a group of submarines built for the Imperial Russian Navy. They were designed by the Electric Boat Company and ordered in the 1911 programme as the "Holland 31A" design. They had advanced features including watertight bulkheads, a crash diving tank and gravitationally filled ballast tanks which did not feature in contemporary Russian-designed boats. The boats were well regarded by the Russian Navy and served in the Black Sea Fleet during World War I, during which they sank 8 merchant ships and 74 coastal vessels.
In 1918 the submarines were subsumed into the Ukrainian State Navy.
Three submarines were built by Nikolayev Dockyard.
| Name | Cyrillic | Meaning | Launched | Fate |
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| Narval | Нарвал | Narwhal | 11 April 1915 | Scuttled in Sevastopol 26 April 1919 |
| Kit | Кит | Whale | May 1915 | Scuttled in Sevastopol 26 April 1919 |
| Kashalot | Кашалот | Sperm whale | 22 August 1915 | Scuttled in Sevastopol 26 April 1919 |
Kit was raised by EPRON in 1934, but the hulls of the other two boats remain on the bottom in the place they were scuttled.
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