AG-11 was a single-hulled submarine, with a pressure hull divided into five watertight compartments. The submarine had a length of 150feet overall, a beam of 16feet and a draft of 12feet. She displaced 355LT on the surface and 433LT submerged. The AG-class submarines had a diving depth of 164feet and a crew of 30 officers and enlisted men.[1]
The submarine had two 3-bladed propellers, each of which was driven by a 480hp diesel engine as well as a 640hp electric motors. This arrangement gave AG-22 a maximum speed of 13kn while surfaced and submerged. She had a range of 1750nmi at while on the surface and 25nmi at 3kn while submerged.[2] Her fuel capacity was 16.5LT of fuel oil.[3]
The AG-class submarines were equipped with four 18inches torpedo tubes in the bow and carried eight torpedoes. For surface combat they had one 47mm deck gun.[2]
The Holland 602 design was widely exported during World War I and the Imperial Russian Navy ordered a total of 17, in three batches, of a version known as the American Holland-class (AG in Russian for Amerikansky Golland (American Holland)). The submarines were to be built in Canada as knock-down kits for assembly in Russia.[2]
Components for the first batch of five submarines were assembled in Barnet, near Vancouver, Canada, and shipped to Vladivostok. There they were loaded onto the Trans-Siberian Railroad and transported to Saint Petersburg where they were assembled by the Baltic Works by June 1916. During World War I Russian and British submarines operated from bases in Finland. The Russian submarines of Holland type (AG-11, AG-12, AG-15 and AG-16) were scuttled in the harbor of Hanko on 3 April 1918 just prior to the German landing there.[4]