Submarine fleet: shipbuilding problems.

From: Military Thought | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The history of Russian fleet is a centuries-old affair. It was the year 1718 when an attempt to build the first Russian submarine as a "concealed vessel," attempt undertaken by the serf self-taught inventor Yefim Nikonov, was registered. Russian submarines got their first, if limited, experience of combat operations at the end of the Russo-Japanese war. Formed in Vladivostok in December 1904, a submarine unit numbering 13 vessels was on patrol duty, in 1905, in the area of Russky and Askold islands. As some historians believe, those actions prevented the Japanese fleet from ...

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