Russian salvage ship Kommuna
Kommuna at Sevastopol in 2008
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Name | Kommuna |
Ordered | 30 December 1911 |
Awarded | 5 May 1912 |
Builder | Putilov Company, St. Petersburg |
Laid down | 12 November 1912 |
Launched | 17 November 1913 |
Commissioned | 14 July 1915 |
Status | in active service |
General characteristics (as built)[1] | |
Displacement | 3,100 long tons (3,100 t) full load |
Length | 96 m (315 ft 0 in) o/a |
Beam | 18.57 m (60 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 3.65 m (12 ft 0 in) |
Depth | 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion | 2 × Felser 6-cylinder diesel engines, 600 hp (447 kW) |
Speed | 10 kn (19 km/h) |
Complement | 99 |
Kommuna is a submarine
History
The ship was the first Russian double-hulled vessel, and was developed by order of the Naval General Staff. SMS Vulkan was used as prototype.
The contract to build the ship was won by the Putilov company, who received Order No. 3559 from the General Directorate of Shipbuilding on 30 December 1911, and the contract for construction was signed on 5 May 1912. The ship was laid down on 12 November 1912 under the supervision of naval architect N.V. Lesnikova. On 17 November 1913 the ship was launched under the name Volkhov, and was commissioned into the Baltic Fleet on 15 July 1915.[1]
Volkhov was initially based at Reval where she served as a submarine tender, capable of carrying 10 spare torpedoes and 50 tons of fuel, as well as accommodation for 60 submariners. She serviced Russian submarines, and also British E and C-class submarines.[1]
Volkhov made her first successful salvage of a submarine in the summer of 1917, raising the American Holland-class submarine AG 15, which had sunk off Åland. On 24 September 1917, Volkhov refloated the Bars-class submarine Edinorog from a depth of 13.5 metres (44 ft).[1]
From late 1917 Volkhov participated in the
Following the
In 1967, the ship sailed from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and was refitted at a cost of 11 million rubles to carry submersibles. In 1974 she was equipped with a Type AS-6 Poisk-2 submersible, which on 15 December 1974 made a record dive to a depth of 2,026 metres (6,647 ft).[1] In 1977 it was used in the search for a Sukhoi Su-24 aircraft that crashed and sank off the Caucasus at a depth of 1,700 metres (5,600 ft).[3]
In 1984 the ship was laid up for transfer to the Russian Academy of Sciences. However, the transfer was cancelled, and she was thoroughly looted, and had to be completely refitted before returning to Naval service. In 1999 she was re-designated from "salvage ship" to "rescue ship".[1]
In October 2009 she received the British-built submarine rescue submersible Pantera Plus, capable of operating to depths of up to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).[4] As of January 2012 she forms part of the detachment of rescue vessels based at Sevastopol.[1]
In April 2022, during the
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Спасательное судно 'Коммуна' Черноморского Флота" ["Rescue ship 'Kommuna' Black Sea Fleet"]. flot.sevastopol.info (in Russian). 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- Jalopnik.com. Retrieved 6 Sep 2022.
- ^ a b Makarov, Dmitry (13 July 2010). "Судно-долгожитель отметило 95-летие" ["Rescue-ship celebrates 95th anniversary"]. gazeta.sebastopol.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ^ Dolgačëv, Nikolai (19 December 2010). "Вести.Ru: У спасателей Черноморского флота России появилась 'Пантера'" ["BBC News: The Russian 'Panther' unveiled in the Black Sea Fleet"]. vesti.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ^ "Russia Deploys Unusual 110-Year-Old Ship To Investigate Moskva Wreck". hisutton.com. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ "Ukraine round-up: Russia admits Moskva ship losses for first time". BBC. 22 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "Moskva wreckage declared item of Ukrainian underwater cultural heritage". BBC. 22 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "The Russians Appear To Be Sending A Deep-Diving Submersible To The Wreck Of The Cruiser 'Moskva'". Forbes. 22 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "Russia's 110-Year-Old Salvage Ship Deploying To Moskva Wreck: Report". The Drive. 22 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
External links
- Media related to Kommuna (ship, 1915) at Wikimedia Commons