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SVÄRDFISKEN submarines (1915)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Svärdfisken S, Sf 115 Kockums, Malmö   30.8.1914 1915 stricken 1936, used as AA battery, BU 1946
Tumlaren T, Tu 116 Kockums, Malmö   14.10.1914 1915 stricken 1936, used as AA battery, BU 1946


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement normal, t

252 / 370

Length, m

45.1 pp 45.5 oa

Breadth, m

4.20

Draught, m

3.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Hesselman 6cyl diesels / 2 Luth & Rosén electric motors

Power, h. p.

1000 / 300

Max speed, kts

14.2 / 8.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)1500(10) / 40(5)
Armament

1 x 1 - 37/37 K/39 M98, 2 - 450 TT (bow, 4)

Complement

21

Diving depth operational, m30


Standard scale images


<i>nearly sister-ship Delfinen</i> 1914
nearly sister-ship Delfinen 1914


Project history

1nd class submarines of Fiat-Laurenti type.

Modernizations

1920s, both: - 1 x 1 - 37/37; + 1 x 1 - 57/50 K/55 M89B

Naval service

Both stricken submarines served as non-self-propelled AA batteries during WWII.

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