The oldest ship of the Russian Navy went to the exercises in the Black Sea

The rescuer submarine "Commune", which was launched in 1913 year, went to the exercises in the Black Sea. In accordance with the combat training plan, he will work out the actions of a single ship at sea for its intended purpose - training divers at a depth of 40 meters. It is reported by the press service of the Southern Military District.

Within a few days, the ship, adapted to the basing of habitable rescue vehicles or a deep-water worker uninhabited complex “Panther Plus”, will work out practical interaction with the crew of the underwater inhabited search and rescue apparatus АС-28

- it is spoken in the official report of military department.

Note that the mobile complex of the remote-controlled uninhabited underwater vehicle "Panther Plus" is capable of diving to a depth of 1000 meters. The control is carried out by the pilot from the board of the surface vessel. To search for sunken objects, the drone uses a round-scan sonar with a range of up to 300 meters. In addition, the device is able to lift to the surface up to 105 kilograms of cargo.

The submarine rescuer Kommuna is the oldest and only functioning ship of the Russian Navy, which has been in operation for more than a hundred years. The Volkhov catamaran (the original name of the "Commune", renamed in 1922) was laid down on November 12, 1912, and on July 14, 1915, it entered the Baltic fleet. For the first time, the ship was commissioned in 1917 when lifting the English submarine AG-15 off the Aland Islands. During the Great Patriotic War, the Commune provided repairs for submarines, including the docking of submarines of the Baby type. In 1967, it was relocated from Kronstadt to Sevastopol. The vessel underwent modernization, as a result of which modern rescue equipment, including the Panther Plus underwater robot, was placed on board and continues to serve as part of the search and rescue forces of the Black Sea Fleet, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.

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[Aristarkh Lyudvigovich]

The Volkhov Catamaran (the original name of the Commune, renamed in 1922 year) was laid down on November 12, November 1912, and on July 14 on November 1915 the Baltic Fleet entered service. "
We have something to be proud of! Little remains of the Aurora’s native building, but here’s the “original” in the kit. Even the copper plates are in place!

[seti]

He is proud of what. But it’s time to make a solid museum out of it, and let his descendants plow the seas. And to widely cover this event - people will bring down crowds to him on such a ship will have something to show and tell.

[siberalt]

If the ship is the oldest, then what should it be taught? In a stall and let people look.

[Shurik70]

If the case is intact, change the diesels, and serve as many more.
The design of the cranes has not changed at all.
I wonder why the waveform at the top of the picture is so weird.

[Orionvit]

Quote: Shurik70

If the case is intact

They say that the case is made of some kind of non-corrosive iron, the secret of which was lost during the revolution. Because still in good condition. I don’t know if it is a bike.

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: Orionvit

They say that the case is made of some kind of non-corrosive iron, the secret of which was lost during the revolution

Too funny to be true.

[Orionvit]

Too funny to be true.

However, it is still in operation.

[Igor V]

Quote: Golovan Jack

Quote: Orionvit

They say that the case is made of some kind of non-corrosive iron, the secret of which was lost during the revolution

Too funny to be true.

Soviet metalworkers could design steel with any characteristics, within reason, naturally. But, from the time of Khrushchev, when we almost reached the war with China, the equivalent was adopted - P18. Any steel, more expensive than P18, was not only not accepted, but was not even considered.
There were many steels in the Union. For example 10HSND - bridge steel. It rusts, but so insignificantly that the railway bridges have been standing for decades, withstanding a large dynamic load and not requiring special supervision.

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: Igor V

For example 10HSND

Right And also, for example, X18N10T
I was amused by another, this:

Quote: Orionvit

whose secret was lost during the revolution

It's just some kind of holiday ...
My teachers in metal science and physical chemistry would be saddened by laughter ... but, alas, they are no longer alive.

[Igor V]

I celebrate with you!
And your steel is a typical expensive stainless steel, (and even with titanium?). I gave an example of inexpensive widespread steel.

[Orionvit]

Quote: Golovan Jack

This is just some kind of holiday.

Boasting your knowledge? Well, this is generally normal, but somehow it’s not entirely beautiful on your part. I did not have at my institute such a subject as "technology of structural materials," or "metal science." And you are asked, is it a bike or not, instead of just explaining how it did Igor V began to giggle maliciously, which does not honor you.

[Golovan Jack]

Quote: Orionvit

I did not have at my institute such a subject as "technology of structural materials", or "metal science

At the menu, the graduating department had Corrosion and Metal Protection. MISIS-1980 +.

Quote: Orionvit

... began to giggle maliciously ...

That’s never and nowhere ...

Quote: Orionvit

bike or not

The bike.

[water]

Quote: Orionvit

Quote: Shurik70

If the case is intact

They say that the case is made of some kind of non-corrosive iron, the secret of which was lost during the revolution. Because still in good condition. I don’t know if it is a bike.

Currently, housing wear is about 2-x%. This is for the centennial "grandfather"! The cruiser “M. Kutuzov” had about 40% for the year before last, and he is much younger. Case steel on it is really not ordinary. Already rolled steel sheets have been "stained" for a decade in the "Sinyavinsky" swamps, which was put under work in St. Petersburg and only after that. Yes, and there is no welding on it - all riveted.
And it’s too early for this “Savior”. At the Black Sea Fleet, he is the only carrier of underwater vehicles. As for me, I would add a deep-sea diving complex of saturated dives there and add another hundred years to operation.

[Nasrat]

Quote: Shurik70

I wonder why the waveform at the top of the picture is so weird.

[zloybond]

Yes, they made a museum out of Mikhail Kutuzov .... it’s worth ... rots. It would be better to have it repaired and given to the naval school ... it would have been more sense than rusting in Novorossiysk .... The ship is in terrible condition .... ashamed .... people are watching and laughing.

[oldseaman1957]

Quote: Aristarkh Ludwigovich

It was laid down on November 12, 1912, and on July 14, 1915, it entered service with the Baltic Fleet.

“Well, they used to rivet cases for centuries!” And if you upgrade as necessary, then you can hold out until the next century. Very successful and necessary design!

[figwam]

I can’t even believe it, Aurora was launched in 1900, and this one in 1913 !!!!! With the king !!!

[seti]

Look at his story .... Aurora nervously smokes aside.

[Giant thought]

The ship was lucky that it served for so long, and Russia was lucky too that it has such a ship to all enemies in spite.

[Nehist]

We must cry and not be proud! Well, this honored old man to eternal parking in the form of a museum

[KVU-NSVD]

Super old woman of longevity !!! seven feet under the keel !!! and well-deserved museum retirement (but not soon )

[vlad66]

More than 100 years in the service, respect and honor to the veteran,

[Nasrat]

I hope it will not be renamed .... at 105 years of life ..

And what serves, and not a museum - it’s even not bad - arouses respect for the fleet, for traditions, for continuity .. I for that he would still serve. And as a museum, it will still be infused, immediately dismantled and concreted. And here everything works !!!! well done grandpa !!!
We and soldiers for 100 years served:

[sharp-lad]

There was a fighting grandfather. Silently !

[vladimirvn]

..The submarine rescuer "Kommuna" is the oldest and only operating ship of the Russian Navy, which has been in operation for more than a hundred years ...
To go nuts !!!

[alstr]

Why the only thing? There is Krasin. A hundred hit him last year.

[Piramidon]

Quote: alstr

Why the only thing? There is Krasin. A hundred hit him last year.

You did not notice the word "acting"? "Krasin" is a MUSEUM in an eternal parking lot. Well, for that matter, then in St. Petersburg in the Central Naval Museum kept the boat of Peter I.

[alstr]

The fact that he just stands does not cancel the fact that at any moment he can start work (unlike Aurora).
But so yes - the Commune is the only actively operating ship (i.e., it is actually working, or even Aurora is considered an active ship).

[Piramidon]

Quote: alstr

Aurora is considered a valid ship

The fact that he is part of the fleet does not mean that he is active and capable of performing the functions of a cruiser. Aurora mechanisms, whoever tried to run?

Since September 2014, he was in Kronstadt for repairs, after which on July 16, 2016 he was returned back to the eternal parking lot at Petrogradskaya Embankment. Whether the cruiser is on the go or not is still unknown.

The same with Krasin.

[alstr]

And what is not known. Aurora is not on the move. They did not begin to restore the car. In addition, only one of the three remained.

And Krasin is very on the go. It just works like a museum. At any time, it can be anchored.

[Piramidon]

Quote: alstr

And what is not known. Aurora is not on the move. They did not begin to restore the car. In addition, only one of the three remained.

And Krasin is very on the go. It just works like a museum. At any time, it can be anchored.

So be it. But there is a difference between a vessel standing at the wall in conservation and working in kind. I’m referring to your first comment when you equated a museum ship with a ship that is really on the move and is in active service, without having read what the article says, and it’s talking about the ACTING ship. I don’t see any reason to argue further. I have the honor!

[ZAV69]

Krasin still has his own triple expansion steam engines alive, though it is heated not by coal but by fuel oil, and the Commune has diesel engines ..... he already has third engines.

[A. Privalov]

Yes, restorers of museum valuables did their best.

[foxhounds]

It seemed like there was a plot on TV about 2 years ago: There is some interesting steel - it does not rust. Even a piece was cut out for analysis.

[Kurare]

Quote: foxhound

There is some interesting steel - it does not rust. Even a piece was cut out for analysis.

That is why he still goes in formation. But the most interesting thing is that the secret of the production of such steel has been lost and cannot be put to a stand ...

[Archivist Vasya]

And for 100 years they could not rediscover / invent? Something alarming for science becomes ((

[Kurare]

Those who are a little familiar with metallurgy know very well what very subtle nuances are there to get the proper result.
You can study the samples on any metal science instrument and get almost all the information about the material, but you will not see the production technology in the results.

[Borik]

AG-15 This is a submarine of the Russian fleet, and not English. Do not know do not write from the ceiling.

[UVB]

Quote: Borik

AG-15 This is a submarine of the Russian fleet, not English

Indeed, the boat was built in Canada in 1915, then bought by Russia and disassembled, first delivered by sea to Vladivostok, then by train to St. Petersburg, where it was reloaded and completed in 1916.

[Alexey RA]

Perhaps, two different episodes of the ship's service overlapped here: the rise of the domestic submarine AG-2 in 15 and the rise of the British submarine L-1917 in 55.

[Archivist Vasya]

This is a technique however! Yes, on such a ship you can live your whole life)))

[Lacoste]

Yeah))) I would not want to be in the sea, in a storm, on such a piece of homna) "it does not fall apart just because its birds are fucked up." (C)

[Servisinzhener]

Of the substance you have designated, only your comment. And the "Commune" will still survive you, without rusting.

[Navy7981]

I once wrote a post about this ship, regarding the steel from which its hull was made. I will not, like a non-steel specialist, say, but I read about the works related to the search and restoration of a method (technology) of smelting special viscous ship steel (it seems on Putilovsky), so the composition is known (as they say and write) to the molecule, and under what conditions the metal turned out which served without any special problems for 100 years, they did not understand.