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Friday, 13 May 2016

Ambitious Finnish naval shipbuilding program according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1924 no. 6

An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau dated 5 November 1924 no. 27 reporting that the Finnish shipbuilding program 1924 consisted of 3 gunboats, 2 destroyers, 2 large and 4 small submarines, 30 motor guard vessels armed with torpedo launchers, 1 training ship and 2 minelayers. The program was to be realized within 8 years and total costs estimated to be 520 million mark included the production of torpedoes and mines.