Engineering:Hajen III-class submarine

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Short description: Swedish Navy post-WW II submarine class
HSwMS Hajen.
Class overview
Builders: Kockums
Operators:  Swedish Navy
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Built: 1953–1960
In commission: 1957–1980
Planned: 6
Completed: 6
Active: 0
Retired: 6
General characteristics
Type: Submarine
Displacement:
  • 720 tonnes (Surfaced)
  • 900 tonnes submerged
Length: 65.8 m (215 ft 11 in)
Beam: 5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)
Draught: 5.0 m (16 ft 5 in)
Propulsion:
  • 2 shaft diesel-electric
  • 2 Pielstick Diesels 1,660 hp (1,240 kW)
  • 2 ASEA electric motors
Speed:
  • 16 kn (30 km/h) surfaced
  • 20 kn (37 km/h) submerged
Complement: 44
Armament: 4 × 533 mm Torpedo Tubes (bow, 8 torpedoes)

The Hajen class (Shark class) was a submarine class built by Kockums and used by the Swedish Navy. The design was influenced by the German Type XXI submarine class. A total of 6 submarines were built in 1954-1958 and were kept in service until 1980.[1][2]

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References

  • Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995
  1. ↑ "Submarines, Svenska ubåtar (1883-1998), Jan-Erik Thoft". http://www.submarines.se/index-1.htm#draken. 
  2. ↑ "Swedish Submarines". http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/swedish_submarines.htm. 




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