Kovarniy Class Fleet Submarine, laid down 1912
Length, 50.0 m x Beam, 6.7 m x Depth, 4.5 m
684 tonnes normal displacement (603 tonnes standard)
Main battery: 1 x 5.7-cm
Light battery: 1 x 3.7-cm
Weight of broadside: 3 kg
6 TT, 45.0 cm (submerged)
Hull unarmored
Operational depth - 123 m/402 ft
Emergency depth - 196m/643 ft
Crush depth - 306m/1005 ft
Maximum speed for 1000 shaft kw = 15.00 knots
Approximate cruising radius, 5000 nm / 10 knots
Typical complement: 34-44
Estimated cost, $115,000 (£29,000)
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:
Armament .........................
1 tonnes = 0 pct
Machinery ........................
53 tonnes = 8 pct
Hull and fittings; equipment .....
434 tonnes = 64 pct
Fuel, ammunition, stores .........
95 tonnes = 14 pct
Miscellaneous weights ............
100 tonnes = 15 pct
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684 tonnes = 100 pct
Estimated metacentric height, 0.2 m
Displacement summary:
Light ship:
589 tonnes
Standard displacement: 603 tonnes
Normal service:
684 tonnes
Full load:
746 tonnes
Loading submergence 198 tonnes/metre
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Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.19
Shellfire needed to sink: 164 kg = 63.9 x 5.7-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: 0.35
Hull speed coefficient 'M' = 5.69
'Natural speed' for length = 12.8 knots
Power going to wave formation
at top speed: 50 percent
Estimated hull characteristics and strength:
Relative underwater volume absorbed by
magazines and engineering spaces: 102 percent
Relative accommodation and working space: 1 percent
Displacement factor: 320 percent
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 3.98
(Structure weight per square
metre
of hull surface: 605 kg)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 4.42
(for 0.03 m average freeboard;
freeboard
adjustment -2.67 m)
Relative composite hull strength: 4.02
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[Machine-readable parameters: Spring Style v. 1.2.1]
164.00 x 21.98 x 14.76; 0.10 -- Dimensions
0.45 -- Block coefficient
1912 -- Year laid down
15.00 / 5000
/ 10.00; Oil-fired turbine or equivalent -- Speed / radius / cruise
100 tons -- Miscellaneous weights
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1
x 2.24; 0 -- Main battery; turrets
Central positioning of guns
:
0 -- No secondary battery
0 -- No tertiary (QF/AA) battery
1 x 1.46 -- Fourth (light) battery
6 / 6 / 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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