page_title: Shchuka-class submarine
section_title: Baltic Fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Shchuka-class submarine / Ships of the class / Baltic Fleet
caption_attribution_description: English: Cabin of a soviet submarine ShCh-307, which exhibits in museum at Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow, Russia Русский: Рубка советской подводной лодки Щ-307, экспонат музея на Поклонной Горе, Москва, Россия
context_page_description: The Shchuka-class submarines, also referred to as Sh or Shch-class submarines, were a medium-sized class of Soviet submarines, built in large numbers and used during World War II. "Shchuka" is Russian for pike. Of this class, only two submarines entered service after 1945, although they were launched before the war.
context_section_description: Shch-301 (lost 28 August 1941)
  Shch-302 (lost October 1942)
  Shch-303 - failed to sink Soviet freighter Metallist with two torpedoes, used by Admiral Nikolay Kuznetsov to accuse Polish submarine ORP Orzeł after the Orzeł incident, as a pretext to seize Estonia.
  Shch-304 (lost November 1942)
  Shch-305 (lost 5 November 1942)
  Shch-306 (lost 12 November 1942)
  Shch-307
  Shch-308 (lost 26 October 1942)
  Shch-309
  Shch-310
  Shch-311 (lost 12 October 1942)
  Shch-315
  Shch-317 (lost 15 July 1942)
  Shch-318
  Shch-319 (lost 29 September 1941)
  Shch-320 (lost 27 October 1942)
  Shch-322 (lost 11 October 1941)
  Shch-323 (lost 1 May 1943)
  Shch-324 (lost 5 November 1941)
caption: The preserved conning tower of Sht-307, a member of Series V-bis-2, at Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow
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