- Ships Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
- References
{{Infobox ship image| Ship image= | Ship caption=Submarine L-4 Garibaldets
}}{{Infobox ship class overview | Name= | Builders= | Operators= | Dekabrist|submarine|4}} | Shchuka|submarine|4}} | Subclasses= | Cost= | Built range=1931–1941 | In service range= | In commission range=1931–1971 | Total ships building= | Total ships planned= | Total ships completed=25 | Total ships cancelled= | Total ships active= | Total ships laid up= | Total ships lost=4 | Total ships retired= | Total ships preserved=1 (partially)
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | date=February 2012}} | Ship class= | Ship type= | Ship displacement=*Group 1+2:- 1,051 tons surfaced
- 1,327 tons submerged
- Group 3+4:
- 1,123 tons surfaced
- 1,416 tons submerged
| Group 1+2: {{convert>81|m|ftin|abbr=on}}- Group 3+4: {{convert|83.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| Group 1+2: {{convert>6.6|m|ftin|abbr=on}}- Group 3+4: {{convert|7|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| Ship height= | All Groups: {{convert>4.08|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship decks= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=*Diesel-electric, 2 shafts- Group 1+2:
- {{convert|2200|hp|abbr=on}} diesels
- {{convert|1450|hp|abbr=on}} electric motors
- Group 3+4:
- {{convert|4200|hp|abbr=on}} diesels
- {{convert|2400|hp|abbr=on}} electric motors
| Ship speed=*Group 1+2:- {{convert|14|kn|km/h}} surfaced
- {{convert|9|kn|km/h}} submerged
- Group 3+4:
- {{convert|18|kn|km/h}} surfaced
- {{convert|10|kn|km/h}} submerged
| Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship complement=53 | Ship armament=*1 × 100 mm gun- 1 × 45 mm gun
- 6 × {{convert|21|in|mm|0|sing=on}} bow torpedo tubes
- 12 × torpedoes
- 20 × mines
- 2 stern mounted torpedo tubes added in Groups 3 and 4
| Ship armor= | Ship notes=
}} | The Leninets or L class were the second class of submarines to be built for the Soviet Navy. They were minelaying submarines and were based on the British L-class submarine, {{HMS|L55||6}}, which was sunk during the British intervention in the Russian Civil War. Some experience from the previous {{sclass-|Dekabrist|submarine|1}}s was also utilised. The boats were of the saddle tank type and mines were carried in two stern galleries as pioneered on the pre-war {{ship|Russian submarine|Krab||2}}, the world's first minelaying submarine. These boats were considered successful by the Soviets and 25 were built in four groups between 1931 and 1941. Groups 3 and 4 had more powerful engines and higher speed. Ships{{Further|Submarine warfare in the Black Sea campaigns (1941–42)}}Group 16 ships were built (L1 to L6), all launched in 1931. 3 were assigned to the Baltic Fleet and 3 to the Black Sea Fleet, including Soviet submarine L-3. | Number | Name | Meaning | Fleet | Launched | Fate |
|---|
| L1 | Leninets (Ленинец) | Follower of Lenin | Baltic | 28 February 1931 | Sunk by German artillery October 1941, salvaged, scrapped 1945 | | L2 | Stalinets (Сталинец) | Follower of Stalin | Baltic | 21 May 1931 | Sunk by mine 15 November 1941 | | L3 | Frunzenets (Фрунзенец) | Follower of Frunze | Baltic | 8 August 1931 | Decommissioned 15 February 1971, conning tower preserved as a memorial | | L4 | Garibaldets (Гарибальдиец) | Follower of Garibaldi | Black Sea | 31 August 1931 | Decommissioned 17 February 1956 | | L5 | Chartist (Чартист) | An adherent of Chartism | Black Sea | 5 June 1932 | Decommissioned 25 December 1955 | | L6 | Carbonari (Карбонарий) | Carbonari | Black Sea | 3 November 1932 | Sunk with depth charges near Sevastopol on 18 April 1944 by the German submarine chaser UJ-104[1] [2] [3] |
Group 26 six ships were built (L7 to L 12) and launched between 1935 and 1936. All were built for the Pacific Fleet by plant 202 "Dalzavod" Vladivostok and plant 199 Komsomolsk-na-Amure. | Number | Name | Meaning | Fleet | Launched | Fate |
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| L7 | Voroshilovets | Follower of Kliment Voroshilov | Pacific | 15 May 1935 | Decommissioned 1956 | | L8 | Dzerzhinets | Follower of Dzerzhinsky | Pacific | 10 September 1935 | Decommissioned 1950s | | L9 | Kirovets | Follower of Kirov | Pacific | 25 August 1935 | Decommissioned 1950s | | L10 | Menzhinets | Follower of Menzhinski | Pacific | 18 December 1936 | Decommissioned 1950s | | L11 | Sverdlovets | Follower of Sverdlov | Pacific | 4 December 1936 | Decommissioned 1950s | | L12 | Molotovets | Follower of Molotov | Pacific | 7 November 1936 | Decommissioned 1950s |
Group 37 ships were built (L13 to L19) and launched from 1937 to 1938. All were assigned to the Pacific Fleet. Considered a new project, the hull was based on the Srednyaya class. They carried 18 mines. | Ship | Fleet | Launched | Fate |
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| L13 | Pacific | 2 August 1936 | Decommissioned 1950s | | L14 | Pacific | 20 December 1936 | Decommissioned 1950s | | L15 | Pacific | 26 December 1936 | Transferred to the Northern Fleet via the Panama Canal in late 1942, decommissioned 1950s | | L16 | Pacific | 9 July 1937 | Japanese submarine|I-25 | 2} on 11 October 1942, near the coast of Oregon while being transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet[4][5] | | L17 | Pacific | 5 November 1937 | Decommissioned 1950s | | L18 | Pacific | 12 May 1938 | Decommissioned 1950s | | L19 | Pacific | 25 May 1938 | Sunk in 1945 |
Group 46 ships were built (L20 to L25) and launched from 1940 to 1941. 3 were assigned to the Baltic Fleet and 3 to the Black Sea Fleet. This group added stern torpedo tubes and new, more powerful diesel engines. | Ship | Fleet | Launched | Fate |
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| L20 | Baltic | 14 April 1940 | Decommissioned 1950s | | L21 | Baltic | 17 July 1940 | Decommissioned 1950s | | L22 | Baltic | 23 September 1939 | Transferred to Northern Fleet 1941, Decommissioned 1950s | | L23 | Black Sea | 29 April 1940 | Sunk 17 January 1944 by German sub-chaser UJ106 | | L24 | Black Sea | 17 December 1940 | Sunk on 15 December 1942 off Cape Shabla by a mine of the Romanian flanking barrage S-15,[6] laid by the Romanian minelayers Amiral Murgescu, Regele Carol I and Dacia[7] | | L25 | Black Sea | 26 February 1941 | Unfinished. Sunk while being towed from Tuapse to Sevastopol in December 1944 |
References1. ^cite web|url=[https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?147594 link] L-6 (Карбонарий) (+1944) on wrecksite
2. ^cite web|url=[https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4875.html link] L-6 on uboat.net
3. ^cite web|url=link (Russian) L-6 on sovboat.ru
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Pacific/L16/|title=Researcher @ Large - Soviet submarine L16 and its loss|publisher=|accessdate=19 December 2014}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Pacific/L16/LossOfTheL16.html|title=Researcher@Large - The Death of Chief Photographer Sergei Mihailoff, USNR and the Soviet submarine L16|publisher=|accessdate=19 December 2014}}
6. ^Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer, Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programs 1935-1953, p. 266
7. ^Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell, World War II Sea War, Volume 4: Germany Sends Russia to the Allies, p. 323
{{refbegin}}- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-146-7}}.
- Yakubov, Vladimir and Worth, Richard. (2008) Raising the Red Banner: The Pictoral History of Stalin's Fleet 1920-1945. Spellmount. {{ISBN|978-1-86227-450-1}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928064342/http://www.morflot.tsi.ru/rus_flot_1696-1917/podlodki/type_l_2.html L-class submarines] {{ru icon}}
{{refend}}{{WWIISovietShips}} 2 : World War II submarines of the Soviet Union|Leninets-class submarines |