Talk:U 137

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This could be interesting to add to this article (but I'm not a specialist so I won't add it myself).

• The Soviet designation was S-363 (not U-137. This was a lie the crew told the Swedish navy).
• Soviet spy (in Sweden at the time) Boris Grigorjev recently claimed (according to tv4 in his new book) that the U-137 indeed had faulty navigational equipment (due to a Danish fishing net, I think it was) but also a drunken crew - and that it was only a mistake. Boris Grigorjev was present (for the Soviet embassy) when the Soviet submarine crew was interrogated.
• Captain: Anatolij Michajlovitj Gusjtjin, Political Officer: Vasilij Besedin
• The submarine may have carried nuclear weapons. Swedish Defence Research Institute measured something what was almost certain uranium-238 through the hull.

I found this too: "S-363 - Ordzhonikidze (Ordzhonikidze Yard, Leningrad) - serial no. 252 - laid down 12.1.56 - launched 16.11.56 - completed 17.9.57; ran aground 27.10.81 near the Swedish Naval Base in Karlskrona, after having lost its radio direction finder in a fishing vessel trawl 18.10.81; 1990's decommissioned, sold to Sweden as a museum boat."

Kricke 02:02, 9 April 2006 (UTC)