Vetehinen (submarine)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | September 16, 1926 |
| Laid down: | 1926-27 |
| Launched: | June 1, 1930 |
| Commissioned: | October 13, 1930 |
| Fate: | Decommissioned 1946, Scrapped 1950s |
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| Stricken: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 493 tonnes surfaced 716 tonnes submerged |
| Length: | 63,5 m total |
| Beam: | 6.2 m total |
| Draft: | 3.6 m |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric 1,016 hp |
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| Speed: | 12.6 knots surfaced 8.5 knots submerged |
| Range: | 1,575 nm at 10 knots surfaced 75 km at 4 knots (7 km/h) submerged |
| Complement: | 30 men |
| Armament: | 76mm/48 Bofors gun 20mm/60 Madsen AA gun 12,7 mm MG 2 bow and 2 aft torpedo tubes 6 torpedoes |
Vetehinen was a 500 tonne submarine that was constructed in the early 1930s and who served in the Finnish Navy during the second World War. The submarine was the first ship of its class and the type was developed from the German Type VIIA -class submarines.
On November 5, 1942, Vetehinen rammed the Soviet submarine Щ 305 (Shch 305) in the southern Gulf of Bothnia and sank it.
[edit] Submarines of the class
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