Soviet Submarine K-77
Coordinates: 41°48′46.32″N 71°24′5.59″W / 41.8128667°N 71.4015528°W / 41.8128667; -71.4015528
K-77 docked in Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Career (USSR) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | K-77 |
| Ordered: | 1950s |
| Laid down: | 31 January 1963 |
| Launched: | 11 March 1965 |
| Commissioned: | 31 October 1965 |
| Decommissioned: | 1991–1994 |
| Struck: | 1994 |
| Fate: | Restaurant, beauty pageant, film set, museum ship Sank in 2007, Recovered and refloated in 2008, Sold for scrap August 2009 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Juliett-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 3,174 long tons (3,225 t) surfaced 3,636 long tons (3,694 t) with fuel 4,137 long tons (4,203 t) submerged |
| Length: | 91 m (298 ft 7 in) |
| Beam: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: | 7 m (23 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 4,000 shp (3.0 MW) D-43 and 1 × 1,750 shp (1.30 MW) 2D-42 diesel engines 2 × 3,000 shp (2.2 MW) PG-141 main and 2 × 500 shp (0.37 MW) PG-140 creep electrical motors 2 screws |
| Speed: | 16.8 knots (19.3 mph; 31.1 km/h) surfaced 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h) submerged (trial) |
| Range: | 9,000 nmi (17,000 km) at 8 kn (9.2 mph; 15 km/h) surfaced 18,000 nmi (33,000 km) at 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) with additional fuel 810 nmi (1,500 km) at 2.74 kn (3.15 mph; 5.07 km/h) submerged |
| Endurance: | 800 hours submerged, stores for 90 days |
| Test depth: | 235 m (771 ft) test 365 m (1,198 ft) design |
| Complement: | 82 (12 officers, 16 petty officers, 54 men) |
| Armament: | • 4 × SS-N-3 Shaddock (P-5 or P-6) cruise missiles or SS-N-12 Sandbox nuclear cruise missiles • 6 × 21 in (530 mm) bow torpedo tubes with 18 torpedoes • 4 × 16 in (410 mm) stern torpedo tubes with 4 anti-submarine torpedoes |
K-77 was a "Project 651" (also known by its NATO reporting name of Juliett-class) cruise missile submarine of the Soviet Navy. Her keel was laid down in the Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard in Gorky on 31 January 1963. She was launched on 11 March 1965, and commissioned on 31 October 1965 into the Northern Fleet.
K-77 was built later in the Juliett class, so her hull was conventional steel and her battery was of the conventional lead-acid type, rather than the austenitic steel and silver-zinc batteries used in the first Julietts. K-77 was also used as the set for the motion picture K-19: The Widowmaker, starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson.
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