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Havmanden 1938

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Havmanden	H1		Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen	8.1936	19.6.1937	8.1938	scuttled 29.8.1943, salvaged and recommissioned 1946, stricken 7.1950
Havfruen	H2		Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen	9.1936	6.11.1937	5.1939	scuttled 29.8.1943, salvaged and recommissioned 1946, stricken 7.1950
Havkalen	H3		Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen	11.1936	3.3.1938	7.1939	scuttled 29.8.1943, salvaged and recommissioned 1946, stricken 7.1950
Havhesten	H4		Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen	6.1939	11.7.1940	9.1942	scuttled 29.8.1943, salvaged and recommissioned 1946, stricken 7.1950

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	320
Displacement normal, t	335 / 407
Length, m	47.5
Breadth, m	4.65
Draught, m	2.84
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Burmeister & Wain diesels / 2 Brown-Boveri electric motors
Power, h. p.	1200 / 450
Max speed, kts	15.3 / 7.2
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Havmanden, Havfruen, Havkalen: 2 x 1 - 40/60 Bofors M36, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 5 - 450 TT (3 bow, 2 stern, 5) Havhesten: 1 x 1 - 40/60 Bofors M36, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 5 - 450 TT (3 bow, 2 stern, 5)
Electronic equipment	presumably hydrophone
Complement	25
Diving depth operational, m

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Project history

Design of Danish Admiralty. Building of the fifth submarine of this class, Н5, was cancelled after German invasion in 1940.

Modernizations

1940, Havmanden, Havfruen, Havkalen: - 1 x 1 - 40/60

Naval service

 All submarines were scuttled by crews 29.8.1943 at Copenhagen.