Soviet submarine type C - "C-56 "

[UrpoK]

Hi Wink,

It’s not a surprise that those images remind you of Type VII. C type is basically German design.
C type was based in Reichsmarine secret U-boat E1. E1 was designed by dummy design bureau IvS in Netherlands and build in Spain.

The E1 project led to two different boats:
C type in USSR and Type A1 in Germany.
They look bit different but based in same structure.

IvS tried to sell E1 boat to soviets, but they were not interested.
Instead the Soviet Navy ordered a new design: C type. Or S type like many western sources it call (Cyrillic C = western S).

The same design group of IvS that has been working in Finland with Vetehinen class and CV707 / Vesikko co-operated with soviet ship yard Ordžonikidz in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). The first three boats were finished 1935-36. Later the Soviet designers developed the type further.

Vesikko was the prototype of Type II. And the Type VII was based on Type II.

Although IvS became useless after Germans were aloud to build submarines it was the premier idea hatchery. The head designers of whole U-Boot family in Reichsmarine and IvS were Friedrich Schürer, Hans Techel, Hans Schottky.

Timo

[rokket]

Thanks Timo. I had assumed because of the TII that this soviet sub couldn't be related. Very interesting!

I really like the C/S look, that tower is semi-modern.

[U - TS]

Hello Everyone!
Timo, That's right!

[U - TS]

This is a very interesting idea. Wink, you can think about the joint construction and production model "C" kits for collectors, modelers. Like Revell.
I can make a master model in scale 1 / 72 and you do Wink Pres-form polystyrene and photo etching. How do you like this idea?
         Slava.

[rokket]

I think it would be a very interesting model, but it's pretty big for little us to tackle just now.