Several Members have sent information on this subject, and we thank them for it all. We are trying to gather as much information on as many countries’ submarines as possible. Can you help?

TOVARICH (it means ‘COMRADE’) collided with the battleship MARAT on 23 July 1935 in the Gulf of Finland. 55 men were lost; there were no survivors. He was raised and put back into service.

M-174 was lost to unknown reasons in November 1938. He was raised and put back into service.

M-90 was lost to a collision with a tug boat off Oranienbaum, near Leningrad (St. Petersburg) sometime in 1938. Details are minimal, but he was raised and put back into service.

SHCH-424 was lost to a collision with a Russian trawler off Murmansk on 24 July 1939. 34 men were lost; no survivors.

DEKABRIST was lost sometime in November 1940 to a diving accident in Motovsky Bay. No further details.

The former German TYPE XXI boat U-3635 was lost during a test dive off Libau. No further details.

A GOLF Class submarine, name unknown, was lost on 11 April 1968 due to an internal explosion while running submerged 1,000 miles NW of Hawaii. No survivors; about 86 men lost.

Sometime in 1968, an unidentified submarine was lost near the naval base at Severomorsk. When the boat was raised several months later, the supply of food had been totally used up, indicating that at least some of the crew survived for some time. When the boat was raised, there were no survivors; about 90 men lost.

A NOVEMBER Class boat was lost on 12 April 1970 seventy miles off the SW coast of Cornwall in the approaches to the English Channel. No survivors; about 88 men lost. No further details.

Sometime in 1970, an unidentified submarine was lost near the Faeroe Islands due to a fire in the reactor room. The crew was able to abandon ship, then scuttled the boat. No further details.

In December 1979, an unidentified submarine in the Atlantic had a radiation accident and was scuttled. No further details.

In KTB #125 next month, we begin a series on Soviet and Russian submarines that were not lost, but were damaged in accidents.

Yes, ‘HE’ is correct for a Soviet or Russian ship or submarine. As we explained in KTB #122 when this series started, Peter the Great referred to his first boat as ‘He’ and so it has remained for 300 years. More on these Russian submarines in KTB #125 and again, we are asking RADM BORIS TSAREV (4991-1996) to check his files and send us any additional information on these subs.

If anyone has this type of information on any other countries boats, we would appreciate your sending it here for a similar feature. Thanks very much, in advance.