Russian submarine Narval

Narval in Sevastopol c. 1915.
History
Russian Empire and the Provisional Government
Name	Narval
Builder	Nevsky Factory, Saint Petersburg[3]
Laid down	December 1911[1]
Launched	24 April[b] 1915[1]
Completed	5 September[a] 1915[1]
Homeport	Sevastopol[1]
Fate	Captured by Germany and then Britain. Scuttled on 26 April 1919.[2]
General characteristics [2][3]
Type	Submarine
Displacement	673 long tons (684 t) surfaced 1,045 long tons (1,062 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 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes 8 × torpedoes in Dzhevetskiy drop collars 2 × 7.62 mm machine guns (1917)

The Russian submarine Narval (Russian: Нарвал, lit. 'narwhal') was the lead ship of the Narval class of submarines of the Imperial Russian Navy. The boat was laid down in December 1911 and launched in April 1915, before undergoing sea trials and entering service in September [O.S. August] 1915. Just after being launched, Narval was inspected by Emperor Nicholas II. The submarine was built for the Black Sea Fleet, and its construction was accelerated after the outbreak of World War I. Narval took part in raiding Ottoman coal shipping along the Anatolian coast during the war, and was credited with destroying 31 ships for a total of 5,717 gross register tons (GRT), making it the second highest achieving Russian submarine in the Black Sea.

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 Narval and several other submarines near Sevastopol in April 1919 to prevent the Bolsheviks from taking them.

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