Caviar off their coasts. Beluga caviar is prized for its soft, extremely large (pea-size) eggs. It can range in color from pale silver-gray to black. It is followed by the small golden sterlet caviar which is rare and was once reserved for Russian, Iranian and Austrian royalty. Next in quality is the medium-sized, light brown to rich brown Ossetra, also known as Russian caviar. Others in the quality ranking are the gray sevruga caviar, the Chinese Kaluga caviar, and the American osetra. The Siberian variety with black beads is similar to sevruga and is popular because of its reduced (5 years)
HMS Sterlet (2S) HMS Sterlet (2S) HMS "Sterlett" was a second-batch S-class submarine built during the 1930s for the Royal Navy. Completed in 1938, the boat fought in the Second World War. The submarine is one of the 12 boats named in the song "Twelve Little S-Boats". Thus far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named "Sterlet". The second batch of S-class submarines were designed as slightly improved and enlarged verions of the earlier boats of the class and were intended to operate in the North and Baltic Seas. The submarines had a length of overall, a