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Conqueror 2000 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Chieftain (ex-Sjöhunden)		502	Kockums, Malmö, Sweden	1966	21.3.1968	25.6.1969 // 4.1996	in service (2019)
Challenger (ex-Sjöbjörnen)		364	Örlogsvarv Karlskrona, Sweden	1966	9.1.1968	28.2.1969 // 28.5.1999	stricken 3.2015
Centurion (ex-Sjöormen)		500	Kockums, Malmö, Sweden	1965	25.1.1967	31.7.1968 // 28.5.1999	stricken 3.2015
Conqueror (ex-Sjölejonet)		501	Kockums, Malmö, Sweden	1965	29.6.1967	16.12.1968 // 28.5.1999	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	1125 / 1400
Length, m	50.0 wl 50.5 oa
Breadth, m	6.10
Draught, m	5.10
No of shafts	1
Machinery	2 Hedemora-Pielstick V12A-2 diesel-generators / 1 ASEA electric motor
Power, h. p.	2200 / 1500
Max speed, kts	15 / 20
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 - 533 TT (bow, 10 Tp613), 2 - 400 TT (bow, 4 Tp431), mines
Electronic equipment	Terma radar, CSU-83 sonar, SUBTICS CCS
Complement	23
Diving depth operational, m	150

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Project history

Contract to acquire the Sjöhunden was announced in 1995 for transfer in April 1996 for use in training submariners in Swedish waters. Submarine was refitted at Karlskrona till September 1997 and retained in Sweden along with Challenger until 2003. Three more submarines were ordered 31.7.1997, officially transferred 28.5.1999. After refit and modifications submarines left to Singapore. Conqueror commissioned 2.7.2000, Chieftain arrived 3.5.2002 and commissioned 25.8.2002, Challenger and Centurion arrived in January 2004. Before transfer submarines received new CCS.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.