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 and 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. For the successes during the war the boat was awarded the Order of Red Banner.

Service history

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

Ships sunk by L-22

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.

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