Name Rechinul Launched 1941 Out of service 1944 | Laid down 1938 Completed 1942 Length 58 m | |
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Builder Galați shipyard, Romania | ||
NMS Rechinul (The Shark) was a submarine of the Romanian Navy, one of the few warships built in Romania during the Second World War. She was laid down at the Galați shipyard on 1938, launched in 1941 and completed in 1942. She had a crew of 45, a displacement of 585 tons on surface and 789 tons in immersion, a length of 58 meters, a beam of 5.6 meters and a draught of 3.6 meters. Her top speed was of 17 knots on surface and 9 knots in immersion and had a range of 7,000 miles. Her armament consisted of 1 x 88 mm SK C/35 naval gun in the front and 1 x 20 mm Oerlikon autocannon in the rear, as well as 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes.
Rechinul took part in the evacuation of the Crimea and later performed the longest mission in Romanian submarine history, starting on 15 June 1944 and lasting 45 days. She was captured by Soviet forces after the 23 August 1944 coup and commissioned as TS-1 on 20 October 1944. She was returned to Romania in 1951. She was withdrawn from active service by 1961 and finally deleted in 1967.