Submarine D2

D-2 Narodovolets (Series I, Project D — Decembrist, factory No. 178) was a Soviet diesel—electric torpedo submarine of the Second World War. During the war, the D-2 made 4 combat trips, carried out 12 torpedo attacks with the release of 19 torpedoes, destroyed one vessel, damaged one vessel.
 
Initially, the submarine was simply called "Narodovolets", on August 21, 1934 it was renamed "D-2", however, both in everyday life and in official documents it was called both "D-2" and "Narodovolets".
The boat was laid down on March 5, 1927 at the Baltic Shipyard No. 189 in Leningrad, launched on May 19, 1929. G. M. Trusov was appointed the first senior mechanical engineer of the boat. On October 11, 1931, the boat joined the Baltic Fleet.
In the summer of 1933, the boat as part of a detachment of ships (the first special Purpose Expedition, EON-1) made the transition along the White Sea-Baltic Canal and on August 5 joined the Northern Military Flotilla (four years later transformed into the Northern Fleet). In 1935, she made a successful trek under the ice. On September 29, 1939, the D-2 returned to the Baltic and embarked on repairs and modernization.
"D-2" in the Great Patriotic War
The D-2 made its first trip on September 23, 1942, under the command of R. V. Lindenberg, a day later the boat almost died when it became entangled in an anti-submarine net set up by the Germans; for two days the submariners freed the submarine, diving underwater during the day, and at night they cut down the steel net. After the liberation, the D-2 arrived at a position off Bornholm Island. On October 14, Narodovolets opened an account by sending the Jacobus Fritzen transport (Jacobus Fritzen, 4090 brt) to the bottom. Five days later, on October 19, 1942, the boat torpedoed and severely damaged the Deutschland sea ferry (Deutschland, 2972 brt), plying between the German city of Sassnitz and the Swedish city of Trelleborg, killing 5 soldiers, another 20 soldiers and two civilians were missing, 27 soldiers and 6 civilians were injured. According to the Swedish press, more than 600 people were killed. According to the intelligence of the Baltic Fleet, among the dead was Deputy Prime Minister of Norway Lunde, who was returning to his homeland after a confidential conversation with Adolf Hitler. In fact, the Minister of Culture of Lunde (Gulbrand Lunde) died in a car accident 6 days after the attack of the Deutschland by a Soviet submarine and had nothing to do with it.