Russian submarine Burevestnik

Russian submarine Burevestnik ("Petrel") was a Bars class submarine of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was built at Nikolaev on the Black Sea during the First World War but was not completed before the end of hostilities. She served with the White Russian forces for two years before being interned in Bizerte with Wrangel's fleet. She was broken up in 1924..

History
Russian Empire
Name: Burevestnik
Namesake: Storm Petrel
Launched: 15 November 1916
Commissioned: October 1917, or January 1918
Captured:
  • 2 May 1918 (German occupation forces):
  • November 1918 (Allied occupation forces):
  • transferred to Wrangel Fleet[1]
Fate: Scrapped, 1924[1]
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Bars class submarine
Displacement:
  • 650 tons surfaced
  • 780 tons submerged
Length: 223 ft (68.0 m)
Beam: 15 ft (4.57 m)
Draft: 13 ft (3.96 m)
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 18 knots (33 km/h) surfaced
  • 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged
Range: 400 nmi (740 km)
Complement: 33
Armament:
  • 1 × 75 mm (3.0 in) gun
  • 1 × 37 mm (1.5 in) AA gun
  • 4 × 457 mm (18.0 in) torpedo tubes
  • 8 × torpedoes in drop collars

Service history

Burevestnik was laid down at the Nikolaev Naval shipyard in October 1915 and launched there on 15 November 1916, but was not completed for another year (sources vary between October 1917 and January 1918). She was stationed with the Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol but saw no action due to the cessation of hostilities in December 1917. In May 1918 she was seized by German occupation forces and renamed SM US-1, but was not commissioned by the German Navy. In November 1918, with the German surrender, she was taken over by the Anglo-French intervention force and transferred to the Whites under General Wrangel.[1] In November 1920 she was part of the evacuation of Wrangel's fleet and was interned at Bizerte in French North Africa. In 1924 she was recognized by the French as the property of the Soviet government but did not return to the USSR and was later scrapped at Bizerte.[2][3]

Citations
  1. Conway p316
  2. Burevestnik at deepstorm.ru; retrieved 22 February 2019
  3. Gröner 1991, p. 38.

Bibliography
  • Gardiner R, Gray R (1985) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921 Conway Maritime Press ISBN 085177 245 5
  • Gröner E, Jung D, Maass M (1991) German Warships 1815–1945, Vol II: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels ISBN 0-85177-593-4 (German: trans. Thomas K, Magowan R)
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