Soviet submarine S-80
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S-80 was a diesel-electric submarine of the Soviet Navy.
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Name | S-80 |
Builder | Sormovo yard, Gorkiy[1] |
Laid down | 13 March 1950[1] |
Launched | 21 October 1950[1] |
Commissioned | 2 December 1952[1] |
Fate | Sunk by accidental flooding, 27 January 1961, with loss of all 68 crewmen[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Whiskey-class attack submarine |
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Length | 76 m (249 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in) to 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in) |
Draft | 4.55 m (14 ft 11 in) |
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Endurance | Submerged: 166 h |
Complement | 52 |
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Its keel was laid down on 13 March 1950 at Krasnoye Sormovo as a Project 613 unit (NATO : Whiskey class). It was launched on 21 October, and delivered to Baku on the Caspian Sea on 1 November for tests, then transferred north via inland waterways in December. It was commissioned into the Northern Fleet on 2 December 1952, and operated there until mid-1957.
Beginning in July 1957, S-80 was overhauled at Severodvinsk and converted to Project 644 ("Whiskey Twin-Cylinder") guided missile submarine, by having launch tubes for two SS-N-3 Shaddock anti-ship missiles fitted externally. It returned to sea in April 1959.