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Saturday 3 December 2016

Russian submarine layer Krab launched at Nikoayev according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1912-1913 no. 10

An item reported that at Nikolayev a 500 tons submarine was launched with as main task mine laying while being in semi submerged state.(1)

Note
1. Probably the Krab ordered in 1908, launched at the navy yard at Nikolayev [nowadays Mykolaiv, Ukraine], commissioned in 1915, captured by German forces in 1917, scuttled by British forces near Sevastopol in April 1919, salvaged in 1935 and broken up. Displacement 512 (surfaced)-740 (submerged) tons, carried 60 mines wither. Designed by Mikhail Petrovich Nalyotov.