Soviet submarine Shch-215
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Щ-215 (transliterated as Shch-215 or sometimes SC-215) was a Soviet Navy Shchuka-class submarine, Type X.[5] She was built at the Sudostroytelnyi zavod imeny 61 kommunara in Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR, and entered service in October 1938[3] with the Soviet Black Sea fleet based at Sevastopol. Shch-215 survived the Second World War, was reclassified С-215 (S-215 in the Roman alphabet) in 1949 and was decommissioned in 1955.[3]
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Shchuka-class X-series submarine | |
History | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name | |
Builder | Sudostroytelnyi zavod imeny 61 Kommunara, Nikolayev, USSR[3] |
Yard number | 1039[4] |
Laid down | 27 March 1935[3] |
Launched | 11 January 1937[3] |
Commissioned | 30 August 1938[3] |
Stricken | 29 December 1955[3] |
Fate | Scrapped 18 January 1956 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Shchuka-class submarine, Type X[5] |
Displacement |
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Length | 57.00 m (187 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in) |
Draught | 3.78 m (12 ft 5 in) |
Propulsion | 2 shaft diesel electric, 1,020 kW (1,370 bhp) diesel, 600 kW (800 bhp) electric |
Speed |
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Range | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Test depth | 91 m (300 ft) |
Complement | 38 |
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Shch-215 is notorious for an attack in February 1944 when she torpedoed and sank the motor schooner MV Mefküre.[1][2][4] Mefküre was carrying between 300 and 400 Jewish refugees, all but five of whom were killed.