Soviet submarine Shch-215
Shchuka-class X-series submarine | |
| History | |
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| Soviet Union | |
| Name |
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| Builder | Sudostroytelnyi zavod imeny 61 Kommunara, Nikolayev, USSR |
| Yard number | 1039 |
| Laid down | 27 March 1935 |
| Launched | 11 January 1937 |
| Commissioned | 30 August 1938 |
| Stricken | 29 December 1955 |
| Fate | Scrapped 18 January 1956 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Shchuka-class submarine, Type X |
| 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 |
| Armament |
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Щ-215 (transliterated as Shch-215 or sometimes SC-215) was a Soviet Navy Shchuka-class submarine, Type X. She was built at the Sudostroytelnyi zavod imeny 61 kommunara in Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR, and entered service in October 1938 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.
Shch-215 is notorious for an attack in February 1944 when she torpedoed and sank the motor schooner MV Mefküre. Mefküre was carrying between 300 and 400 Jewish refugees, all but five of whom were killed.