K-524

 

SHIP'S BELL FROM THE

RUSSIAN NUCLEAR SUB K-524

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The K-524 and Schuka class (Schuka = Russian for Barracuda) submarines were designed to engage enemy ballistic missile submarines, antisubmarine taskforces, and to protect vessels and  convoys.
 
K-524 was the first submarine in the Schuka III class (project 671RTM). She was laid down 7.6.1976 at the admiralty shipyard in St.Petersburg and launched 31.7.1977. The sub was in active service in the Russian northern fleet until 2002.
 
K-524 was 106,1 m long, 10,8 m beam and had a draft of 7,8 m. The displacementet was 7.250 ton submerged, working depth 400 m / max depth 600 meter. She carried a crew of 96.
 

K-524 was by many considered as one of the most successful Russian submarines. She has participated in several outstanding campaigns and missions.

 

In 1987  K-524 participated in an outbreak maneuver from her home base Zapadnaya Litsa (Kola peninsula). She disappeared from Nato surveillance in the North Atlantic andmanaged to remain invisible for 8 days until Nato found her in the Sargasso sea.

In 1985 K-524 did her most renowned and sophisticated mission. She sailed from the Arctic Sea to Lincolns Sea, passed through Robson och Kennedy Straits (west of Greenland) down to Buffin Bay and the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. There she spotted the US Aircraft carrier 'America' and successfully attacked it (contingently, of course). The entire mission took 80 days of which 54 days under ice and an average depth of 150 meter.  See the Russian Navy's homepage for more information.

By doing this she was the first vessel in the world to pass between grant land and Greenland submerged.

While submerged the ships bell was kept in a box down below. At surface and in harbour the bell was hanging in the tower of the sub.