![ShCh-317 file photo [16423]](/images/ship_shch317_1.jpg "ShCh-317 file photo [16423]")
ShCh-317
| Country | Russia |
| Ship Class | Shchuka-class Submarine |
| Builder | Shipyard 194 named after A. Marti, Leningrad, Russia |
| Laid Down | 23 Jul 1934 |
| Launched | 24 Sep 1935 |
| Commissioned | 29 Sep 1936 |
| Sunk | 14 Jul 1942 |
| Displacement | 704 tons submerged |
| Length | 187 feet |
| Beam | 20 feet |
| Machinery | Diesel engines (1,370hp), electric motors (800hp), two shafts |
| Speed | 12 knots |
| Crew | 38 |
| Armament | 4x forward torpedo tubes, 2x aft torpedo tubes, 10 torpedoes, 2x45mm guns |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseSoviet submarine ShCh-317 joined the Soviet Baltic Fleet in the fall of 1936. During the war, she sank several Swedish, Danish, and German merchant ships in the Baltic Sea before becoming missing some time after 10 Jul 1942. It was generally said that she was sunk by German and Finnish patrol vessels with depth charges in or near the "Nashorn" minefield in the Baltic Sea on 14 Jul.
ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia
Last Major Revision: Nov 2012