''Minoga'' (''Минога - Lamprey'') was a submarine built for the

Imperial Russian Navy The Imperial Russian Navy () operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917. It developed from ...

. She was built by

Baltic Yard The OJSC Baltic Shipyard (''Baltiysky Zavod'', formerly Shipyard 189 named after Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze) (russian: Балтийский завод имени Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, С. Орджоникидзе) is one of the oldest shipyards i ...

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and designed by

Ivan Bubnov Ivan Grigoryevich Bubnov (russian: Ива́н Григо́рьевич Бу́бнов; 18 January 1872 – 13 March 1919) was a Russian marine engineer and designer of submarines for the Imperial Russian Navy. Bubnov was born in Nizhny Novgorod an ...

She was a single hulled boat with a 16 fathom (30 metres) diving depth. While an advance on previous boats, the single shaft design was not very maneuverable and the diesel engines were not reliable. The boat served in the Baltic Fleet during

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

but was transferred to the Caspian Sea Flotilla in 1918. She was decommissioned and scrapped in 1922

References

* ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minoga Submarines of the Imperial Russian Navy Ships built at the Baltic Shipyard 1908 ships World War I submarines of Russia