NAVYPEDIA

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Valen 1935 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Valen	Va	294	Örlogsvarvet Karlskrona	1923	5.5.1925	9.1925	stricken 10.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	501 /
Displacement normal, t	548 / 730
Length, m	57.1
Breadth, m	7.10
Draught, m	3.10
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Atlas diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1340 / 700
Max speed, kts	14.8 / 7.4
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(14) / 54(6)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/49 K/50 M12, 4 - 450 TT (bow, 8), 20 mines
Complement	31
Diving depth operational, m	60?

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Project history

First minelaying submarine of Swedish navy. Design was made on the basis of drawings of Bävern class submarines. Normand-Fenaux minelaying system was used. It consisted of 10 vertical trunks, in each of which two mines were stored. Trunks placed in external ballast tanks between pressure and light hullls.

Modernizations

1930s: + 1 x 1 - 25/55 K/58 M32.

Naval service

no significant events.

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