SUBSIM: The Web's #1 resource for all submarine & naval simulations since 1997 |
09-17-17, 04:14 AM | #1 |
Sub Test Pilot
|
K3 Leninsky Komsomol Update (Pictures)
For those who are interested
K3 has now been put back into the sea and moved to a floating dry dock to start phase two of her restoration to become a museum. Hopefully the restoration period wont take more than a year or two but who knows this is down to how much money is available and for those who follow this submarine its been well over a decade in the making to get her to this point. Statistics: 352 feet long 25 feet wide 18 feet draft Crusing depth 320 meters (1050ft) Test Depth 480 meters (1825ft) Surfaced Displacement: 3,000 tons Submerged displacement: 5,000 tons Surfaced speed: 15 knots Submerged speed: 31 knots Brief history: Laid down in 1954 the same year as Nautilus went under way on nuclear powered the K3 took some 3 years to complete being launched from Sevmash in 1957 being comissioned in 1958, her home port of Zapadnya Litsa was home port at one time to the ill fated Kursk K141. In 1962 the submarine made the first transit of a Soviet submarine to the north pole upon her return she was formally named Leninsky Komsomol upon her return she lay idle for nearly 5 years barely going to sea. In 1967 while in transit a fire broke out in the hydraulic systems sadly 39 crew died The rest of her career was pretty uneventful she did track an american SSBN that had left Rota Spain only to be intercepted by another American SSN. In 1988 she was decommissioned and laid up at Gremikha awaiting her fate and in 2006 she was slated for restoration something that remains on going K3 Moving by Blair Shaw, on Flickr Both reactors have been removed so she is a dead vessel K3 Moving by Blair Shaw, on Flickr Two harbour tugs are keeping a close eye on her after the events of her sister submarine K159 its no wonder. K3 Moving by Blair Shaw, on Flickr Barely seaworthy but 3 vessels crowding her from what im told during the transit only 2 men were permitted inside at any one time (after 9 out of 10 died on K159 when she sank) K3 Moving by Blair Shaw, on Flickr Lining her up for the floating dry dock K3 Moving by Blair Shaw, on Flickr In she goes she has to be exact otherwise she could potentially break her back after all she has been cut in two already. K3 Moving by Blair Shaw, on Flickr In position and the tugs are gone pump out begins K3 Moving by Blair Shaw, on Flickr Almost high and dry here you can see the torpedo tubes and also the section which was cut out and plugged (used to be reactor compartment) K3 Moving by Blair Shaw, on Flickr Frontal view of the first Soviet nuclear submarine
__________________
DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/ |
|
|