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| Soviet Military Maritime Fleet Leninec-class submarine 1,200 Tons 265' 9" | 24' 7" | 15' 9" 1 x 100mm deck gun 1 x 45mm gun 6 x 21" torpedo tubes 2 x 21" torpedo tubes aft 12 torpedoes 18 x sea mines |
Sub History Built by Dalzavod in Vladivostok in the Soviet Union as a Leninec-class submarine (L Class), Group 3 (including submarines L-13 to L-19). Laid down November 5, 1935 at Yard 202. Launched July 9, 1937 as L-16. Commissioned December 9, 1938 in the Sovyetsky Voyenno-Morskoy Flot (Soviet Military Maritime Fleet). Assigned to the Pacific Fleet at Vladivostok. Wartime History Departs departs Petropavlovsk with L-15 across the north Pacific Ocean to Dutch Harbor then southward to San Francisco then planned to transit the Panama Canal to the Atlantic Ocean then via Halifax, Canada and the United Kingdom before proceeding to the Baltic Sea to operate against the Germans. Sinking History On October 11, 1942 while steaming on the surface roughly 500 miles west of Seattle, the pair was spotted by Japanese submarine I-25 which mistook the pair as "two battleships" then "two submarines" and fired her single remaining torpedo. Thirty seconds later, L-16 was hit, explodes and sank at approximately Lat 45.41N, Long 138.56W with the loss of the entire crew of 55 with an American interpreter/liaison officer Sergey A. V. Mikhailoff, USNR. References U-Boat.net L-16 Contribute
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