Soviet submarine L-22

The World War II Soviet submarine L-22 belonged to the L-class or Leninets class of minelayer submarines. She was part of the last series (Group 4) of her class, having some improvements including more torpedo tubes.[1] For the successes during the war the boat was awarded the Order of Red Banner. [2]

History
Soviet Union
Name: L-22
Laid down: 4 December 1938
Launched: 23 September 1939
Commissioned: 28 August 1942
Fate: Scrapped.
General characteristics
Class and type: Leninets-class
Displacement:
  • 1,108 tons surfaced
  • 1,400 tons submerged
Length: 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in)
Beam: 7 m (23 ft 0 in)
Draft: 4.05 m (13 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 18 knots (33 km/h) surfaced
  • 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged
Range:
  • 10,000 nmi (19,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) surfaced
  • 150 nmi (280 km) at 2.5 kn (4.6 km/h) submerged
Test depth: 80
Complement: 56
Armament:
  • 1 × 100 mm (3.9 in) L/68 gun
  • 1 × 45 mm (1.8 in) gun
  • 8 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 ext aft)
  • 18 × torpedoes
  • 20 × mines
Service record
Part of: Northern Fleet

Service history

L-22 scored her success mostly as a minelayer submarine.

Ships sunk by L-22[3]
Date Ship Flag Tonnage Notes
14 November 1942 Schiff-18 Alteland 419 GRT aux. patrol ship(mine)
14 April 1943 Pasvik 238 GRT tug(mine)
1 June 1943 Birka 1000 GRT hospital ship (mine)
28 December 1943 R-64 125 GRT aux. minesweeper(mine)
Total:1,782 GRT

L-22 also torpedoed and damaged the German freighter Rudesheimer (2036 GRT) on 1 September 1943.[3]

References
  1. "Series XIII-1938" minelaying submarines". navypedia.org. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  2. Orlov Alex; Dmitriy Metelev; Evgeniy Chirva. "Великая Отечественная - под водой". Town.ural.ru. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  3. "Allied Warships L-22 Submarine of the L (Leninec) class". uboat.net/. Retrieved 27 August 2014.

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