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J. William Fulbright
The S-class or Srednyaya ("medium") submarines were part of the Soviet Navy's underwater fleet during World War II. Unofficially nicknamed Stalinets
follower of Stalin"; not to be confused with the submarine L-class L-2 Stalinets of 1931), boats of this class were the most successful and achieved the most significant victories among all Soviet submarines. In all, they sank 82,770 gross register tons (GRT) of merchant shipping and seven warships, which accounts for about one-third of all tonnage sunk by Soviet submarines during the war.
Pictured here is a 1:350 scale replica of a Russian Stalinets-Class Submarine.
ATL7169107
Dimensions: Length: 9-1/4-inches
Features:
Fully assembled
Fully painted
Ready to display
Features a cutaway bow section that reveals interior details!
Historical Account: "Hero of the Soviet Union" - S-13 was a Stalinets-class submarine of the Soviet Navy. Her keel was laid down by Krasnoye Sormovo in Gorky on October 19th, 1938. She was launched on April 25th, 1939, and commissioned on July 31st, 1941, in the Baltic Fleet, under the command of Captain Pavel Malantyenko.
In the first half of September 1942, under Malantjenko's command, S-13 sank two Finnish ships, Hera and Jussi H., and a German ship Anna W, totaling 4,042 tons.
On October 15th, 1942, caught on the surface while charging her batteries, S-13 was attacked by the Finnish submarine chasers VMV-13 and VMV-15. During her crash dive, the submarine hit bottom, severely damaging her rudder and destroying her steering gear. The following depth charge attack worsened the damage, but S-13 escaped and made it back to Kronstadt.
During the next three years, Malantyenko was relieved by Alexander Marinesko and S-13 was repaired and returned to sea.
Under the command of Marinesko, then 32, on January 30th, 1945, at Stolpe Bank off the Pomeranian coast, S-13 sank the 25,484-ton German liner Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with civilians and military personnel, with three torpedoes. Recent estimates calculate that over 9,000 people were killed, the worst loss of life in maritime history.
Soon after that, S-13 fired at the T-36, a torpedo boat that had come to the aid of the Wilhelm Gustloff. Despite being overloaded with 564 survivors from the Gustloff, the captain of T-36 was able to dodge the torpedo.
On February 10th, 1945, S-13 sank another German transport ship Steuben. 3,300 civilians and military personnel from the ship died, and 300 survived.
Marinesko hoped to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. He left the navy in early 1946, embittered. He was posthumously awarded the title in 1990.
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