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Allied Warships

S-15

Submarine of the S (Stalinec) class

NavyThe Soviet Navy
TypeSubmarine
ClassS (Stalinec) 
Pennant 
Built byKrasnoye Sormovo (Gorkiy, U.S.S.R) / Yard 112 
Ordered 
Laid down10 Aug, 1939 
Launched24 Apr, 1940 
Commissioned20 Dec, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryNorthern fleet.

Stricken on 20 June 1956. 


Noteable events involving S-15 include:

23 Nov, 1943
S-15 fires four torpedoes against ' what is identified as ' an auxiliary minesweeper of the Laksefjord. The target is not hit.

26 May, 1944
S-15 fires four torpedoes against a German convoy of the Syltefjord. No hits were obtained. S-15 was then heavily depth charged by the German auxiliary submarine chasers UJ 1209, UJ 1212 and UJ 1219.

23 Aug, 1944
S-15 attacks but misses the small German tanker Gretchen with torpedoes off Makkaur.

24 Aug, 1944
S-15 torpedoes and damages the German merchant Dessau (5983 BRT) off the Tanafjord. The damaged Dessau is towed to Mehamn.


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