Soviet submarine Shch-307

Shch-307 was a Shchuka-class submarine of the Soviet Navy. Her keel was laid down by Baltiyskiy Zavod in Leningrad on 6 November 1933. She was launched on 1 August 1934 and commissioned on 4 August 1935 in the Baltic Fleet.

Shch-307 was of V-bis-2 series.
History
Soviet Union
Name:	Shch-307
Laid down:	6 November 1933
Launched:	1 August 1934
Commissioned:	4 August 1935
Decommissioned:	23 April 1948
Stricken:	8 April 1957
Status:	Conning tower preserved as memorial
General characteristics
Class and type:	Shchuka-class submarine, Type V-bis-2[1]
Displacement:	577 tons surfaced 704 tons submerged
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:	12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) on the surface; 6.3 knots (11.7 km/h; 7.2 mph) submerged
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:	4 × bow torpedo tubes 2 × stern torpedo tubes (10 torpedoes) 2 × 45 mm (1.8 in) semi-automatic guns

Service history

The submarine took part in the whole Baltic Sea campaigns (1939–45), surviving at the war. The most prominent action of the submarine was the sinking of the German submarine U-144 in 1941. After the war, she was turned into the floating charging station PZS-5, before being stricken: the conning tower was preserved as a memorial.

Ships sunk by Shch-307[2]

Date	Ship	Flag	Tonnage	Notes
10 August 1941	U-144		314 GRT	submarine (torpedo)
26 October 1942	Betty H.		2,478 GRT	freighter (torpedo)
16 January 1945	Henrietta Schultze		1,923 GRT	freighter (torpedo)
Total:			4,715 GRT

References

1. Helgason, Guðmundur. "Shch (Scuka) class". Uboat. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
2. "ShCh-307". uboat.net. Retrieved 14 July 2015.