"Shch-408" - Soviet diesel-electric torpedo submarine of the Second World War , belongs to the X-bis series of the project Shch - "Schuka" .
| Shch-408 | |
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| Ship history | |
| Flag state |  the USSR |
| Home port | Kronstadt |
| Launching | June 4, 1940 |
| Removed from the fleet | May 24, 1943 |
| Current status | killed in battle |
| Main characteristics | |
| Ship type | average DPL |
| Project designation | "Pike", a series of X-bis |
| Speed (surface) | 13.6 knots |
| Speed (underwater) | 7.9 knots |
| Working depth | 75 m |
| Extreme depth of immersion | 90 m |
| Autonomy swimming | 20 days |
| Crew | 41 people |
| Dimensions | |
| Displacement above the water | 590 t |
| Underwater displacement | 705 t |
| Length is greatest (on KVL ) | 58.8 m |
| Case width naib. | 6.2 m |
| Average draft (on KVL) | 4 m |
| Power point | |
| Diesel engine 38K8, 800 hp | |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 2 x 45mm 21-K guns 1000 shots |
| Torpedo mine weapons | nasal TA: 4x533 mm, Feed TA: 2x533mm ammunition: 10 torpedoes |
| Air defense | 2 machine guns |
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Ship history
The boat was laid April 23, 1939 at the plant number 194 "them. Marty " in Leningrad , launched on June 4, 1940, September 10, 1941 entered service.
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| Submarine "Shch-408" in Kronstadt. 1943 | |
In May 1943, Shch-408 left Kronstadt for a military campaign. For about three days in the vicinity of Waindlo Island, she tried to overcome the network and minefields put up by the enemy on the way from the Gulf of Finland to the Baltic Sea . The battery is discharged, the air reserves are exhausted, people began to choke, lose consciousness. From fuel tanks damaged by mine explosions, diesel fuel spots appeared on the surface, unmasking the submarine, which was discovered by Finnish aircraft and boats. The commander of the ship was a native of the city of Grozny, captain-lieutenant P. S. Kuzmin , who decided to report the situation to the command center of the fleet. To this end, the main ballast tanks were purged and the boat surfaced.
Having risen on the bridge, the commander visually found a group of boats that began to fire a submarine that had come up. An artillery crew was summoned to the deck, shells were sent to the guns. The submarine entered into an unequal battle. Two boats were struck with accurate fire. A radiogram went ashore with a request to send airplanes. Three aviation groups of 71 regiments flew out of naval airfields to the aid of submariners; four Soviet aircraft were shot down. The pilots could not find and assist the "Shch-408". The ship went under water, without lowering the flag [1] .
Memory
In January 1964, a street in Leningrad was named in honor of the boat commander Pavel Kuzmin.
In May 2016, Russian search divers of the project “Bow to the Ships of the Great Victory - 2016”, together with the Finnish search team Subzone, found and identified U-408. The boat is in the Estonian territorial waters [2] . According to the divers' report, the 45-mm cannons of the boat are turned towards the left side and are in a combat position, there are boxes with shells on the deck. All hatches of the boat are battened down; holes from shells are clearly visible on the wheelhouse. Thus, all information about the last Shch-408 fight is confirmed [3] .
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Notes
- ↑ Natalia Prokopchuk. SOS! // "Staraya Russa": newspaper. - 2015. - July 3rd.
- ↑ Deputy Minister of Energy: it is my responsibility to look for sunken submarines
- ↑ Russian divers found in the Gulf of Finland a submarine U-408 times of war . Regnum (May 4, 2016). The appeal date is May 4, 2016.