Lying on Suomenlinna, Helsinki
Designed by the Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw (IvS or Inkavos) at the Hague, Netherlands which was a cover for the Germans to keep their experience and knowledge about designing and building warships including submarines up to date. Part of her archive still exists and is kept by the Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie at The Hague. The Vesikko was in fact the prototype of the German Type II submarines, the A-series U 1-6 was almost identical to her. Her building as CV 707 ordered on 9 October 1930, laid down by Crichton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland on 7 March 1931, launched on 10 May 933, commissioned on 30 April 1934, in actual service on 19 January 1936, active against Russia including sinking the Soviet merchant ship Vyborg on 3 July 1941, taken out of service after December 1944, while in 1947 Finland was no longer allowed to operate any submarines she was laid up, in 1959 sold and added to the Military Museum and on 9 July 1973 opened her doors as a museum ship.
Displacement 254 (surfaced)-301 (submerged)-381 (total) tons and as dimensions 26.10 (pressure hull)-40.90 (over all) x 4.026 (pressure hull)-4.076 x 8.18 (height) x 3.79 metres or 85.8-134.2 x 13 2.5-13 4.5 x 26.10 x 12.5 feet. Her diesel-electric propulsion consists of 2x345 bhp diesel engines and 2x178 shp double-acting electric motors allowing a speed of 13 (surfaced)-8 (submerged) knots and a range of 1.350 nautical miles/8 knots/surfaced-40 nautical miles/4 knots/submerged. The armament consisted of 3-53.3cm/21” torpedo tubes in the bow for which 5 torpedoes were carried with her, 1-2cm/0.79” cal 60 Madsen anti aircraft gun and 1-12.7mm/0/.50” machine gun
No comments:
Post a Comment