DELFIN submarine 1903
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:28 pm
Built by the Baltic shipbuilding & Engineering in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1902 Launched.
Displacement 113 ton surfaced, 126 tons submerged. Dim. 19.6 x 3.35 x 2.9m.
Powered by two gasoline engines, 300 hp, and I electric motor 120 hp. One shaft, speed 9 knots surfaced, 4.5 knots submerged.
Armament two Dzhevetskiy external 15 inch torpedoes in drop collars. One machine gun.
Crew 22
1903 Commissioned.
DELFIN was the first Russian battle-submarine. (Also given as DELPHIN.)
She was designed by Naval architect Senior Assistant Ivan Grigoryevich Bubnov Lieutenant M.N. Beklemishev and Lieutenant I.S. Goryunov of the Construction Commission for Submarines (later the Rubin Design Bureau), laid down by Baltic plant at St Petersburg, launched in 1902, and entered service in 1903, training officers and sailors.
On 29 June 1904 the submarine sank in the Neva River by the wall of the Baltic shipyard during a test dive. The captain and 24 crewmen were killed, and 12 men were rescued.
DELFIN was salvaged and transferred to the Siberian flotilla, arriving in Vladivostok in late 1904. She served until 1917, seeing action in the Russo-Japanese War.
During World War I DELFIN was transferred to Murmansk and served in Northern flotillia. In 1917 she was stricken and scrapped in 1920.
The centenary of DELFIN’s sinking - the first Russian submarine accident - was marked by the St Petersburg Submarine Club with wreath-laying, a mourning service, and by guards of honor and an orchestra marching at the Smolenskoye Orthodox cemetery.
St Tome et Principe 2009 100000 Db sg?, scott?
Source: Wikipedia
1902 Launched.
Displacement 113 ton surfaced, 126 tons submerged. Dim. 19.6 x 3.35 x 2.9m.
Powered by two gasoline engines, 300 hp, and I electric motor 120 hp. One shaft, speed 9 knots surfaced, 4.5 knots submerged.
Armament two Dzhevetskiy external 15 inch torpedoes in drop collars. One machine gun.
Crew 22
1903 Commissioned.
DELFIN was the first Russian battle-submarine. (Also given as DELPHIN.)
She was designed by Naval architect Senior Assistant Ivan Grigoryevich Bubnov Lieutenant M.N. Beklemishev and Lieutenant I.S. Goryunov of the Construction Commission for Submarines (later the Rubin Design Bureau), laid down by Baltic plant at St Petersburg, launched in 1902, and entered service in 1903, training officers and sailors.
On 29 June 1904 the submarine sank in the Neva River by the wall of the Baltic shipyard during a test dive. The captain and 24 crewmen were killed, and 12 men were rescued.
DELFIN was salvaged and transferred to the Siberian flotilla, arriving in Vladivostok in late 1904. She served until 1917, seeing action in the Russo-Japanese War.
During World War I DELFIN was transferred to Murmansk and served in Northern flotillia. In 1917 she was stricken and scrapped in 1920.
The centenary of DELFIN’s sinking - the first Russian submarine accident - was marked by the St Petersburg Submarine Club with wreath-laying, a mourning service, and by guards of honor and an orchestra marching at the Smolenskoye Orthodox cemetery.
St Tome et Principe 2009 100000 Db sg?, scott?
Source: Wikipedia