Soviet submarine L-22

History
Soviet Union
Name	L-22
Laid down	4 December 1938
Launched	23 September 1939
Commissioned	28 August 1942
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class & type	Leninets-class
Displacement	1,108 tons surfaced 1,400 tons submerged
Length	85.3 m (279 ft 10 in)
Beam	7 m (23 ft 0 in)
Draft	4.05 m (13 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric 2 × diesels 2 × electric motors 2 shafts
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h) surfaced 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged
Range	10,000 nmi (19,000 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) surfaced 150 nmi (280 km) at 2.5 kn (4.6 km/h) submerged
Test depth	80
Complement	56
Armament	1 × 100 mm (3.9 in) L/68 gun 1 × 45 mm (1.8 in) gun 8 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 ext aft) 18 × torpedoes 20 × mines
Service record
Part of	Northern Fleet

The World War II Soviet submarine L-22 belonged to the L-class or Leninets class of minelayer submarines. She was part of the last series (Group 4) of her class, having some improvements including more torpedo tubes.^{[citation needed]} For the successes during the war the boat was awarded the Order of Red Banner.^[1]

Service history

L-22 scored her success mostly as a minelayer submarine.

Ships sunk by L-22^[2]

Date	Ship	Flag	Tonnage	Notes
14 November 1942	Schiff-18 Alteland		419 GRT	aux. patrol ship (mine)
14 April 1943	Pasvik		238 GRT	tug (mine)
1 June 1943	Schiff-8 Birka		1,000 GRT	hospital ship (mine)
28 December 1943	R-64		125 GRT	aux. minesweeper (mine)
Total:			1,782 GRT

Ships damaged by L-22.^[2]

Date	Ship	Flag	Tonnage	Notes
1 September 1943	Rudesheimer		2,036 GRT	Cargo ship (torpedo)
Total:			2,036 GRT

References

1. Orlov Alex; Dmitriy Metelev; Evgeniy Chirva. "Великая Отечественная - под водой". Town.ural.ru. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
2. "Allied Warships L-22 Submarine of the L (Leninec) class". uboat.net/. Retrieved 27 August 2014.

Bibliography

• Budzbon, Przemysław; Radziemski, Jan & Twardowski, Marek (2022). Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939–1945. Vol. I: Major Combatants. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-68247-877-6.
• Polmar, Norman & Noot, Jurrien (1991). Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718–1990. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-570-1.