Russian Narval-class submarine

For other ships with the same name, see Narval-class submarine.

Russian submarine Narval under construction
Class overview
Name	Narval class
Builders	Nikolayev Dockyard
Operators	Imperial Russian Navy]]
In commission	1914–1919
Completed	3
Lost	3
General characteristics
Type	Submarine
Displacement	621 tons surfaced 994 tons submerged
Length	70.1 m (230.0 ft)
Beam	6.5 m (21.3 ft)
Draught	3.5 m (11.5 ft)
Installed power	640 hp (480 kW) (diesel) 900 hp (670 kW) (electric)
Propulsion	2 shafts Diesel-electric propulsion 4 diesel engines (2 per shaft)
Speed	9.5 kn (17.6 km/h) (surfaced) 11.5 kn (21.3 km/h) (submerged)
Range	12 days, 3500 miles at 6.5 knots 103 miles under water at 4 knots
Complement	47
Armament	2 × bow 450 mm (18-inch) torpedo tubes 2 × stern 450 mm (18-inch) torpedo tubes 8 × external torpedo drop collars 1 × 75 mm gun 1 × 57 mm gun 2 × 7.62 mm machine guns since 1917 2 × bow 450 mm (18-inch) torpedo tubes 2 × stern 450 mm (18-inch) torpedo tubes 4 × external torpedo drop collars 2 × 75 mm gun 1 × 37 mm gun 2 × 7.62 mm machine guns

The Narval class were a group of submarines built for the Imperial Russian Navy. They were designed by the Electric Boat Company and ordered in the 1911 programme as the "Holland 31A" design. The Narval class had advanced features including watertight bulkheads, a crash diving tank and gravitationally filled ballast tanks which did not feature in contemporary Russian-designed boats. The boats were well regarded by the Russian Navy and served in the Black Sea Fleet during World War I, during which they sank 8 merchant ships and 74 coastal vessels.

In end of 1917 the submarines were transferred to the reserve. Submarines sunk by the British forces in April 1919 near Sevastopol.

Ships

Three submarines were built by Nikolayev Dockyard.

Name	Cyrillic	Meaning	Launched	Fate
Narval	Нарвал	Narwhal	11 April 1915	Scuttled in Sevastopol 26 April 1919
Kit	Кит	Whale	May 1915	Scuttled in Sevastopol 26 April 1919
Kashalot	Кашалот	Sperm whale	22 August 1915	Scuttled in Sevastopol 26 April 1919

Kit was raised by EPRON in 1934, but the hulls of the other two boats remain on the bottom in the place they were scuttled.

Narval at the Southern bay in Sevastopol

References

• Robert Gardiner; Randal Gray; Przemyslaw Budzbon (May 1985). Conway's all the world's fighting ships, 1906-1921. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
• "Тип «Нарвал» (проект «Голланд-31А» (Holland-XXXIA), США). (Narval class (project "Holland-31A" (Holland-XXXIA), USA) )" (in Russian). Retrieved 2011-08-13.
• Zablocki V.P. Submarines "Narwhal". Marine Collection 12/2011.