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) under the command of Lt. Gerard Henry Stacpoole Haward. Four days later she unsuccessfully attacked a convoy of three merchant ships and a destroyer. The following day she was assigned a new patrol area and on 14 April torpedoed the German gunnery training ship "Brummer", leading to her sinking the following day. She was possibly sunk by the German anti submarine trawlers "UJ-125", "UJ-126" and "UJ-128" on 18 April. Alternatively, she may have struck a mine whilst returning to port. HMS Sterlet (2S) HMS "Sterlett" was a second-batch S-class submarine built during the 1930s for the Royal Navy. Completed in