An item reported that at Nikolayev a 500 tons submarine was launched with as main task mine laying while being in semi submerged state.(1)
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1. Probably the Krab ordered in 1908, launched at the navy yard at Nikolayev [nowadays Mykolaiv, Ukraine], commissioned in 1915, captured by German forces in 1917, scuttled by British forces near Sevastopol in April 1919, salvaged in 1935 and broken up. Displacement 512 (surfaced)-740 (submerged) tons, carried 60 mines wither. Designed by Mikhail Petrovich Nalyotov.
