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Quebec-class submarine

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The Quebec-class was plagued with problems caused by liquid oxygen evaporation. Their endurance was limited to 14 days due to continuous evaporation of the oxygen and lack of a re-liquefaction system, and the propulsion system led to several serious incidents. In 1957 two submarines were lost due to
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The Quebec class had a streamlined conning tower with a fixed snorkel housing at the rear end. They were armed with four torpedo tubes in the bow, for which no reloads were carried, and earlier boats also had a twin 25 mm anti-aircraft gun faired into the forward end of the tower, making them
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including 68 dives and 360 nmi (670 km; 410 mi) of submerged running on its closed-cycle plant. Further work was temporarily suspended due to the war but was resumed after hostilities ended, at Leningrad.
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John Jordan, Soviet Submarines, 1945 to the Present, London, Arms and Armour Press, 1989, pp.26-28 cited in Sean Maloney, 'To Secure Command of the Sea,' University of New Brunswick thesis 1991, p.316
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Thirty units were built between 1952 and 1957 of the 100 planned before the project was abandoned and the Soviet Union developed nuclear-powered boats. The last ones were retired in the 1970s.
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extracted and dumped overboard, before the purified gases were mixed with stored oxygen and fed back into the engine. A prototype of this powerplant was installed in the experimental submarine
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was carried out by S.A. Basilevskiy, who developed a powerplant codenamed REDO. The exhaust gases from the diesel engine were compressed and the
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with no casualties. Other incidents caused oxygen-fueled flames to burst out from the boats, which led to their crews to nickname them
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Quebec-class submarines were fitted with two regular diesel engines and a third, closed-cycle diesel engine, which used
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closed cycle system: 2 × 700 hp (520 kW) conventional diesel engines,
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some of the last submarines to be constructed with deck guns.
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2,750 nautical miles (5,090 km) at cruising speed on surface
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Quebec class submarines - Complete Ship List (English)
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Submarines of the Russian and Soviet navies, 1718-1990
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in the Baltic, which led to the loss of 35 men, while
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1 × 900 hp (670 kW) AIP (liquid oxygen) diesel engine,
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Soviet Navy
M class
NATO reporting name
Soviet
submarine
coastal submarine
closed-cycle diesel engines
carbon dioxide
M-401
Gorky
Caspian Sea
liquid oxygen
air-independent propulsion
M-256
Tallinn
M-351
Black Sea
Zippos

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