Soviet submarine S-56

S-56 on display in Vladivostok
History
Soviet Union
Name	S-56
Builder	Dalzavod, Vladivostok
Laid down	24 November 1936
Launched	25 December 1939
Commissioned	20 October 1941
Decommissioned	14 March 1955
Fate	Stricken on 9 May 1975 and became a museum ship in Vladivostok
General characteristics
Class and type	S-class submarine (Series IX-bis)
Displacement	856 t (842 long tons) surfaced 1,090 t (1,070 long tons) submerged
Length	77.8 m (255 ft 3 in)
Beam	6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)
Draft	4 m (13 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	2 × diesel engines 2 × electric motors 2 × shafts
Speed	18.85 knots (34.91 km/h) surfaced 8.8 knots (16.3 km/h) submerged
Range	9,500 nmi (17,600 km)
Test depth	80 m (260 ft)
Complement	45
Armament	6 × torpedo tubes 2 × deck guns
Service record (World War II)
Commanders:	Kapitan vtorogo ranga G. I. Shchedrin 1941–1946
Victories:	4 merchant ships sunk (7,191 GRT)

S-56 was an S-class submarine of the Soviet Navy during and after World War II. She was laid down by shipyard #194 in Leningrad on 24 November 1936, shipped in sections by rail to Vladivostok where it was reassembled by Dalzavod.^[1] She was launched on 25 December 1939 and commissioned on 20 October 1941 in the Pacific Fleet. During World War II, the submarine was under the command of Captain Grigori Shchedrin and was moved from the Pacific Fleet to the Northern fleet across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans via the Panama Canal. After decommissioning, the submarine was turned into a museum ship.^[2]