Bezmolvniy Class Submarine, laid down 1908
Length, 35.0 m x Beam, 6.0 m x Depth, 4.2 m
400 tonnes normal displacement (392 tonnes standard)
Main battery: 1 x 3.7-cm
Weight of broadside: 1 kg
4 TT, 45.0 cm (submerged)
Hull unarmored
Operational depth - 143 m/470 ft
Emergency depth - 229m/752 ft
Crush depth - 358m/1175 ft
Maximum speed for 349 shaft kw = 12.00 knots
Approximate cruising radius, 1000 nm / 8 knots
Typical complement: 23-29
Estimated cost, $69,000 (£17,000)
Remarks:
Caution: lacks seaworthiness -- very limited seakeeping ability.
Caution: Very cramped ship with excessively poor habitability;
lacks suitable working space.
Oil firing.
Ship has quick, 'lively' roll; not a steady gun platform.
Distribution of weights:
Percent
normal
displacement:
Machinery ........................ 26
tonnes = 6 pct
Hull and fittings; equipment .....
277 tonnes = 69 pct
Fuel, ammunition, stores .........
17 tonnes = 4 pct
Miscellaneous weights ............
80 tonnes = 20 pct
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400 tonnes = 100 pct
Estimated metacentric height, 0.1 m
Displacement summary:
Light ship:
383 tonnes
Standard displacement: 392 tonnes
Normal service:
400 tonnes
Full load:
405 tonnes
Loading submergence 124 tonnes/metre
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Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.03
Shellfire needed to sink: 102 kg = 145.2 x 3.7-cm shells
(Approximates weight of penetrating
shell hits needed to sink ship,
not
counting critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 0.2
(Approximates number of 'typical'
torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform, 1 percent
(50 percent is 'average')
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam, 0.00
Relative quality as a seaboat: 0.00
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Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.45
Sharpness coefficient: 0.38
Hull speed coefficient 'M' = 4.76
'Natural speed' for length = 10.7 knots
Power going to wave formation
at top speed: 51 percent
Estimated hull characteristics and strength:
Relative underwater volume absorbed by
magazines and engineering spaces: 91 percent
Relative accommodation and working space: 1 percent
Displacement factor: 300 percent
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 4.40
(Structure weight per square
metre
of hull surface: 603 kg)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 8.60
(for 0.03 m average freeboard;
freeboard
adjustment -2.39 m)
Relative composite hull strength: 4.70
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[Machine-readable parameters: Spring Style v. 1.2.1]
114.80 x 19.68 x 13.78; 0.10 -- Dimensions
0.45 -- Block coefficient
1908 -- Year laid down
12.00 / 1000
/ 8.00; Oil-fired turbine or equivalent -- Speed / radius / cruise
80 tons -- Miscellaneous weights
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1
x 1.46; 0 -- Main battery; turrets
Central positioning of guns
:
0 -- No secondary battery
0 -- No tertiary (QF/AA) battery
0 -- No fourth (light) battery
4 / 4 / 17.72 -- TT / submerged / size
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0.00 -- No belt armor
0.00 / 0.00 -- Deck / CT
0.00 -- No battery armor
(Note: For portability, values are stored in Anglo-American units)
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