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'''''S-13''''' was a [[Soviet S class submarine|''Stalinets''-class submarine]] of the [[Soviet Navy]]. Her keel was laid down by [[Krasnoye Sormovo]] in [[Nizhny Novgorod|Gorky]] on 19 October 1938. She was [[ship naming and launching|launched]] on 25 April 1939 and [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 31 July 1941 in the [[Baltic Fleet]], under the command of Captain [[Pavel Malantyenko]].<ref>[http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5098.html "Submarine of the S (Stalinec) class" at uboat.net]</ref> The submarine is best known for the 1945 sinking of ''[[MV Wilhelm Gustloff|Wilhelm Gustloff]]'', a German military transport ship/converted cruise ship. With a career total of 44,701 GRT (gross register tonnage) sunk or damaged, she is the highest-scoring Soviet submarine in history.
== Service history ==
In the first half of September 1942, under Malantjenko's command, ''S-13'' sank two Finnish ships, ''Hera'' and {{SS|Jussi H.||2}}, and a German ship ''Anna W'', totaling 4,042 tons. When S-13 sank the freighter ''Hera'', she notably fired on the ship's lifeboats but failed to hit them.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://haverit.hylyt.net/index.php/2020/12/01/hera-1942/ | title=Hera (1942) – höyrylaiva – Haverit.net }}</ref>
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During the next three years, Malantyenko was relieved by [[Alexander Marinesko]] and ''S-13'' was repaired and returned to sea.
Under the command of Marinesko, then 32, on 30 January 1945, at [[Stolpe Bank]] off the Pomeranian coast, ''S-13'' sank the 25,484-ton German civilian cruise ship ''[[MV Wilhelm Gustloff|Wilhelm Gustloff]]'', overfilled with civilians and military personnel, with three [[torpedo]]es. Recent calculations estimate more than 9,000 people were killed, the worst loss of life in maritime history.<ref>{{dead link|date=January 2017}}[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4442/is_200709/ai_n19511170/pg_1 "Greatest Wartime Sea Tragedy Becomes Major Film"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414125709/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4442/is_200709/ai_n19511170/pg_1 |date=2008-04-14 }}, a ''[[Sea Classics]]'' magazine September 2007 article</ref><ref name="Kapp-03">{{cite web|author1=Irwin J. Kappes|title=Wilhelm Gustloff
On 10 February 1945, ''S-13'' sank another German military transport ship ''[[SS General von Steuben|General von Steuben]]''.<ref>[http://bob.plord.net/Ships/MS-3/Germany/GeneralvonSteuben.html Data sheet on the ''Dampfschiff General von Steuben'']</ref> 3,300 civilians and military personnel from the ship died, and 300 survived.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.grani.ru/opinion/sokolov/m.134310.html | title=Грани.Ру: Потопленный миф }}</ref>
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''S-13'' was decommissioned on 7 September 1954 and stricken on 17 December 1956.
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto;"
|+ Ships sunk by ''S-13''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5098.html | title=S-13 of the Soviet Navy
▲|+ Ships sunk by ''S-13''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5098.html | title=S-13 of the Soviet Navy - Soviet Submarine of the S (Stalinec) class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net }}</ref>
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| ''Hera''
| {{flagicon|Finland}}
| 1379 GRT
| freighter (torpedo)
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| ''Jussi H.''
| {{flagicon|Finland}}
| 2325 GRT
| freighter (torpedo)
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| ''Anna W.''
| {{flagicon|Netherlands}}
| 290 GRT
| freighter (gunfire)
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| ''[[MV Wilhelm Gustloff|Wilhelm Gustloff]]''
| {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}}
| 25484 GRT
| transport ship (torpedo)
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| ''[[SS General von Steuben|General Steuben]]''
| {{flagicon|Nazi Germany}}
| 14660 GRT
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| colspan=3 align=right|'''Total:'''||44,138 GRT||
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''S-13'' also shelled and damaged the German fishing vessel, ''Siegfried'' (563 GRT), which was damaged but escaped.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5098.html | title=S-13 of the Soviet Navy
▲''S-13'' also shelled and damaged the German fishing vessel, ''Siegfried'' (563 GRT), which was damaged but escaped.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5098.html | title=S-13 of the Soviet Navy - Soviet Submarine of the S (Stalinec) class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net }}</ref>
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