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Hajen-class submarine of the Swedish Navy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HSwMS Bävern (Bä), (Swedish for "The beaver") was the fifth Hajen-class submarine of the Swedish Navy.[1]
HSwMS Bävern | |
History | |
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Sweden | |
Name | Bävern |
Namesake | Bävern |
Builder | Saab Kockums |
Launched | 3 February 1958 |
Commissioned | 29 May 1959 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1980 |
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Motto |
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Fate | Scrapped, 1981 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hajen-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 65.8 m (216 ft) |
Beam | 5.1 m (17 ft) |
Draught | 5.0 m (16.4 ft) |
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Complement | 44 |
Armament | 4 × 533mm Torpedo Tubes (bow, 8 torpedoes) |
HSwMS Bävern was launched on 3 February 1958 by Saab Kockums, Karlskrona and commissioned on 29 May 1959.
On 19 August 1961, while in Lysekil, she was involved in a bizarre collision with a Volvo P544 car which rolled downhill onto a pier.[2]
She was decommissioned on 1 July 1980 and later sold for scrap in Odense in 1981.[3]
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