Soviet submarine K-77

The K -77 as a museum ship in Providence 2005

1 × type 1DL42 diesel engine 1,000 hp 2 x PG -141 6,000 hp electric motors 1 x PG -140 electric motor 200 hp

• 4 × launch tubes for cruise missile
• 6 × torpedo tubes (bow) Ø 533 mm
• 4 × torpedo tubes ( rear ) Ø 406 mm

Ammunition

• 4 cruise missiles P5/P6
• 18 torpedoes

The K- 77 and B- 77 was a submarine of the Soviet and later the Russian Navy and was a member of the Project 651. After her playing days, the K -77 was a bar in Finland and later tourist attraction in Florida and then Rhode Iceland. In April 2007, the boat sank in a storm on the sea wall.

History

Military History

The boat was laid on January 31, 1963 in Gorky keel and ran on 11 March 1965 by the stack. On October 31 of the year the commissioning took place. Little is known about the history of the use of the boat, it probably drove mainly in the Mediterranean, West Africa and on one occasion near the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. K -77 was made between 1991 and 1994 out of service.

Tourist attraction

Then it was bought by the Finnish business man Jari Komulainen and 1994 used as a bar and restaurant in Helsinki. Since the boat is not as much as hoped threw off of Komulainen, he leased K -77 to a Canadian businessman who was hauling it to Tampa Bay in Florida. He wanted to make it available to the public at the port of Saint Petersburg. However, since the angedachte location in the harbor was not deep enough, had the boat out of town and be moored farther away from the tourist centers. Shortly thereafter, the investor went bankrupt.

Komulainen then tried twice, the U- boat to sell for a million dollars starting price on eBay, but there were no takers. However, the producers of the film K-19 rented - Showdown in the depth of the boat from time to time for $ 200,000, there to shoot scenes for the film. For the K -77 was towed to Halifax. In 2002, the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation bought the U- boat and drag it to Providence, Rhode Iceland to rebuild it into a museum ship. In August 2002, the Foundation opened the boat for the audience, in the future there should be next to the USS Saratoga (CV -60) are accessible.

Fall

During a severe storm over Rhode Iceland on 17 April 2007 water entered through a cut in Finland opening in a Bugtorpedoraum, which could not be completely water -tight. About 30 hours after the first alarm, the boat sank at the wharf in about 10 meters deep water.

In June 2008, began diving in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army with attempts to lift the boat by pumping compressed air. On 25 July 2008 they were able to bring the submarine back to the surface. It is unlikely that the K -77 after 15 months will be prepared under the water again as a museum, as museum director Frank Lennon stated this cost of at least one million U.S. dollars.