NARODOVOLETS D-2 submarine.

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NARODOVOLETS D-2 submarine.

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Apr 09, 2015 9:10 pm

Built as a submarine under yard No 178 by the Ordzhonikidze Shipyard in Leningrad for the Soviet Navy.
05 March 1927 laid down.
19 May 1929 launched as the NARODOVOLETS one of the Dekabrist class of which six were built.
Named after the 19th Century Russian Revolutionary Group called the Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will).
Displacement 934 tons surfaced, 1,361 tons submerged, dim. 76.6 x 6.7 x 4.2m. (draught).
Powered by two MAN diesels 2,500 hp., twin shafts, speed 15 knots surfaced, and two electro motors 1,250 hp, speed 8.4 knots submerged.
Range by a speed of 7 knots, 7,000 mile surface and 105 mile by a speed of 4 knots, submerged.
Armament 1 – 4 inch B-2 AS gun, 1 – 37mm AA Model 1928 mounted on the conning tower, later modified. 8 – 21 inch torpedo tubes, 6 forward and 2 aft.
Crew 53.
11 October 1931 completed.

After commissioned a unit of the Baltic Fleet.
During the summer of 1933 was she transferred via the White Sea Baltic Canal to Northern Russia and on 05 August 1933 she became a unit of the Northern Fleet.
21 August 1934 was she renamed D-2 but in official documents she was still given under both names.
In 1935 did she made a successful voyage under the ice.
29 September 1939 is she back in the Baltic for repairs and refit, where after she became again a unit of the Baltic Fleet.
23 September 1942 she made her first war patrol, the second day of her patrol she became entangled in an anti-submarine net placed by the Germans. It took two days for divers to free the submarine, during daylight she submerged and during the night the Russian divers cut the net and chains to free her.
She came in her patrol area off the Danish island Bornholm, and on 14 October 1942 she torpedoed de German cargo vessel JACOBUS FRITZEN which she sank.
19 October 1942 one of her torpedoes damaged the German ferry DEUTSCHLAND at the stern, the DEUTSCHLAND was in service between Sassnitz and Trelleborg, several people on board the ferry were killed, missed or wounded.
All together during the war, she fired she made 4 war patrols, fired 19 torpedoes, sinking one ship and damaging another.
After the war in 1956 was she decommissioned and refitted in a training vessel for damage control for the Russian Navy as the GF-6.
In 1989 by a special decree of the Soviet Union Government it was decided to create a memorial to the heroes of the Soviet Union submariners of World War II, scientists, designers and shipbuilders, and the same year the D-2 was established as a memorial museum in St Petersburg.
2015 Still there in a dry berth ashore and open for the public.

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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94-2_ ... 1%86%C2%BB http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
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