Som class submarine
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For the modern submarines referred to as the Som class, see Tango class submarine
Tango class submarine
The Russian Tango class submarines were the successors to the Foxtrot class submarine based in the Black Sea and Northern Fleet areas. The first of the class was completed in 1972 at Gorky. A total of 18 were built in two slightly different versions...

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The Som class were a series of submarines built for the Imperial Russian Navy
Imperial Russian Navy
The Imperial Russian Navy refers to the Tsarist fleets prior to the February Revolution.-First Romanovs:Under Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich, construction of the first three-masted ship, actually built within Russia, was completed in 1636. It was built in Balakhna by Danish shipbuilders from Holstein...

 in 1904-1907. They were designed by the Electric Boat Company and ordered in the 1904 emergency programme at the time of the Russo-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was "the first great war of the 20th century." It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea...

. The boats were designed to be transportable by train. The first boat, Som, was the former Fulton delivered to Russia in sections and re-assembled in St. Petersburg.

Ships

Ship namesake Launched Service / Fate
Som -Сом - (ex Fulton) Catfish 1904 Delivered to Vladivostok 1904 - to Black Sea Fleet then to Baltic Fleet 1915 - Sunk in collision 10 May 1916
Beluga - Белуга Beluga 1905 Baltic Fleet -Scuttled 25 February 1918 in Reval
Losos - Лосось Salmon 1905 Black Sea Fleet - Scuttled 1919 in Sevastopol
Peskar - Пескарь Gudgeon 1905 Baltic Fleet -Scuttled 25 February 1918 in Reval
Schuka - Щука Pike April 1905 Baltic Fleet -Scuttled 25 February 1918 in Reval
Strelyad - Стерлядь Sterlet 1905 Baltic Fleet -Scuttled 25 February 1918 in Reval
Sudak Sander 1907 Black Sea Fleet - Scuttled 1919 in Sevastopol
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