Soviet submarine S-56

	S-56 on display in Vladivostok
History
Soviet Union
Name	S-56
Laid down	24 November 1936
Launched	25 December 1939
Commissioned	20 October 1941
Decommissioned	14 March 1955
Fate	Stricken on 9 May 1975 and became a museum ship at Vladivostok (Korabelnaya embankment)
Status	museum-ship
General characteristics
Class and type	Soviet S-class submarine
Displacement	840 long tons (853 t) surfaced; 1,050 long tons (1,067 t) submerged;
Length	77.8 m (255 ft 3 in)
Beam	6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)
Draught	4.4 m (14 ft 5 in)
Propulsion	2 × diesels 2,000 hp (1,491 kW) each; 2 × electric motors 550 hp (410 kW) each; 2 × shafts;
Speed	19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph) surfaced; 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) submerged;
Test depth	100 m (330 ft)
Complement	50 officers and men
Armament	6 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (4 forward, 2 aft); 12 × torpedoes; 1 × 100 mm (4 in) gun; 1 × 45 mm (2 in) cannon;

S-56 was a Stalinets-class submarine of the Soviet Navy. She was laid down by shipyard #194 in Leningrad on 24 November 1936, shipped in sections by rail to Vladivostok where it was reassembled by Dalzavod.^[1] She was launched on 25 December 1939 and commissioned on 20 October 1941 in the Pacific Fleet. During World War II, the submarine was under the command of Captain Grigori Shchedrin and was moved from the Pacific Fleet to the Northern fleet across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans via the Panama Canal. After decommissioning, the submarine was turned into a museum ship.^[2]

Service history

For her service, the submarine was awarded with the Order of the Red Banner and the Guards badge.^[3]

Ships sunk by *S-56*^[2]
Date	Ship	Tonnage	Notes
17 May 1943	Eurostadt	1118 GRT	tanker (torpedo)
17 July 1943	M-346	551 GRT	minesweeper (torpedo)
19 July 1943	NKi-09/Alane	466 GRT	patrol vessel (torpedo)
31 January 1944	Heinrich Schulte	5056 GRT	freighter (torpedo)
Total:		7,191 GRT

During the attack against Eurostadt, another torpedo hit and damaged the German freighter Wartheland (3676 GRT) but the ship was saved because the torpedo was a dud.^[2]

References

^ "МГК ПЛ "С-56"". 2011-02-08. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c "S-56 of the Soviet Navy - Soviet Submarine of the S (Stalinec) class - Allied Warships of WWII". uboat.net. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
^ Orlov Alex; Dmitriy Metelev; Evgeniy Chirva. "Великая Отечественная - под водой". Town.ural.ru. Archived from the original on 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2014-08-03.

43°06′48″N 131°53′28″E / 43.11342°N 131.891221°E / 43.11342; 131.891221

[museumtof.ru-1] "МГК ПЛ "С-56"". 2011-02-08. Retrieved 2017-08-11.

[uboat.net-2] "S-56 of the Soviet Navy - Soviet Submarine of the S (Stalinec) class - Allied Warships of WWII". uboat.net. Retrieved 2014-08-03.

[3] Orlov Alex; Dmitriy Metelev; Evgeniy Chirva. "Великая Отечественная - под водой". Town.ural.ru. Archived from the original on 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2014-08-03.

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