- Russian submarine Delfin
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Career (Russian Empire) Name: Delfin Builder: Baltic plant, Saint Petersburg, Russia Launched: 1902 Commissioned: 1903 Decommissioned: 1917 General characteristics Type: Submarine Displacement: 113 tons surfaced
126 tons submergedLength: 19.6 m Beam: 3.3 m Draught: 2.9 m Propulsion: 1 shaft petrol / electric
300 hp/120 hpSpeed: 9 knots surfaced
4.5 knots submergedComplement: 22 officers and men Armament: 2 external 15" torpedoes in drop collars Delfin (Дельфин, Russian: "Dolphin") was the first Russian battle submarine.
She was designed by Naval architect Senior Assistant I.G. 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 Submariners Club with wreath-laying, a mourning service, and by guards of honor and an orchestra marching at the Smolenskoye Orthodox cemetery.
References
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1922
Russian naval ship classes of World War IDreadnought battleships Pre-dreadnought battleships Battlecruisers Armored cruisers Light cruisers Protected cruisers Destroyers Submarines - S — Single ship of class
- C — Completed after the war
Categories:- Submarines of the Imperial Russian Navy
- Ships built in Russia
- 1902 ships
- Russo-Japanese War naval ships of Russia
- World War I submarines of Russia
- Submarine stubs
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