Russian submarine Kit

Kit before being launched in Nikolayev in 1915.
History
Russian Empire and the Provisional Government
Name	Kit
Builder	Nevsky Factory, Saint Petersburg[3]
Laid down	December 1911[1]
Launched	May 1915[1]
Completed	27 October[a] 1915[1]
Homeport	Sevastopol[1]
Fate	Captured by Germany and then Britain. Scuttled on 26 April 1919,[2] raised in 1934 and scrapped.[3]
General characteristics [2][3]
Type	Submarine
Displacement	621 long tons (631 t) surfaced 994 long tons (1,010 t) submerged
Length	70.1 m (230.0 ft)
Beam	6.5 m (21.3 ft)
Draught	3.5 m (11.5 ft)
Installed power	640 hp (480 kW) (diesel) 900 hp (670 kW) (electric)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric propulsion 2 shafts 4 diesel engines (2 per shaft)
Speed	9.5 kn (17.6 km/h) (surfaced) 11.5 kn (21.3 km/h) (submerged)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,500 km)
Complement	35
Armament	1 × 75 mm (3 in) gun and 1 × 57 mm (2 in) 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes 8 × torpedoes in Dzhevetskiy drop collars 2 × 7.62 mm machine guns (1917)

Kit (Russian: Кит, lit. 'whale') was the second boat of the Narval class of submarines of the Imperial Russian Navy. The submarine was laid down in December 1911 and launched in May 1915, though it was not completed until October 1915. Built for the Black Sea Fleet, it carried out raids against Ottoman supply convoys along the coast of Anatolia and was responsible for sinking 24 ships, for a total of 1,270 gross register tons (GRT).

After the Russian Revolution, the submarine remained in Sevastopol, where it was first captured by the Germans and then by the British and the White Army in the Russian Civil War. The British scuttled Kit and several other submarines near Sevastopol in April 1919 to prevent the Bolsheviks from acquiring them. Their location was found by the Soviets in 1934 and Kit became the only one of them to be raised, though they decided not to restore the submarine and had it scrapped.

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