Soviet submarine tender Dmitriy Galkin

Dmitriy Galkin on 1 June 1988
History
Soviet Union
Name	Dmitriy Galkin (Дмитрий Галкин)
Namesake	Dmitriy Galkin
Builder	Black Sea Shipyard
Yard number	618
Laid down	28 April 1959
Launched	31 March 1960
Commissioned	25 December 1960
Decommissioned	24 June 1991
Identification	See Pennant numbers
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Don-class submarine tender
Displacement	2,316 tonnes (2,279 long tons) standard 3,066 tonnes (3,018 long tons) full load
Length	140 m (460 ft)
Beam	17.7 m (58 ft)
Draught	6.4 m (21 ft)
Propulsion	4 × diesel engines, 8,000 hp (6,000 kW)
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Range	21,000 km (11,000 nmi; 13,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	300-450
Sensors and processing systems	Hawk Screech Slim Net Rys-1
Electronic warfare & decoys	2 × Watch dog ECM systems Vee cone communication system
Armament	4 × single 100 mm (4 in) guns 4 × dual 57 mm (2.2 in) guns

Dmitriy Galkin was a Don-class submarine tender of the Soviet Navy.

Development and design

Main article: Don-class submarine tender

The project of the submarine tenders was developed in the central design bureau "Baltsudoproekt" under the leadership of the chief designer V. I. Mogilevich. The main observer from the Navy was Captain 1st Rank G.V. Zemlyanichenko. The construction of the lead ship was completed in Nikolaev at the Black Sea shipyard in 1958. In total, seven tenders of project 310 were built for the Soviet Navy in 1958-1963.

Don-class submarine tenders had a total displacement of 7150 tons and 5030 tons while they're empty. Main dimensions: maximum length - 140 m, width - 17.67 m, draft - 5.6 m. Two-shaft diesel-electric main power plant with a capacity of 4000 hp. with. provided the ship with a full speed of 16 knots. The cruising range reached 3000 nautical miles (at a speed of 12.5 knots), autonomy - 40 days. The crew consisted of 350 people, including 28 officers.

They could serve four submarines of Project 611 or Project 613. The equipment of the floating base was capable of providing navigational and emergency repair of the hull, mechanisms and weapons and storage of 42 533-mm torpedoes in a special room. A 100-ton crane was housed at the bow of the ship.

The defensive armaments of the ships consisted of four single-barreled 100-mm artillery mounts B-34USMA and four 57-mm twin installations ZIF-31 with the Ryf control radar, the sonar station was not provided. After modernization, on two ships, instead of two aft 100-mm installations, a take-off and landing pad was equipped for basing one Ka-25 helicopter. On the last floating base of the series, the Osa-M air defense missile system was installed.

Construction and career

The ship was built at Black Sea Shipyard in Mykolaiv and was launched on 11 September 1951 and commissioned on 29 December 1951.

In 1986 while off Tripoli, Dmitry Galkin was set up as a command ship and was appointed the flagship of the group. The group included: an air defense post, headed by the Head of the Air Defense of the Flotilla, Captain 1st Rank A. N. Bulavchik, Chief of Communications of the Flotilla, Captain 1st Rank V. I. Sushko, Officer of the Political Department, Captain of the 2nd Rank V. E. Vergiles, two of the most trained operators, Warrant Officers E.M. Podpleta and Warrant Officers V. V. Grabovenko.

She was decommissioned on 24 June 1991 and later scrapped.

Pennant numbers

Date	Pennant number
1960	911
1967	11
1974	938
1976	900
1978	933
1980	940
	939
1986	909
1988	877
1991	871

See also

• Submarine tender
• Don-class submarine tender
• List of ships of the Soviet Navy
• List of ships of Russia by project number