Finnish submarine Vesihiisi
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| Career (Finland) |  |
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| Name: | Vesihiisi |
| Ordered: | 4 March 1927 |
| Builder: | Crichton-Vulcan |
| Laid down: | 1927 |
| Launched: | 1 August 1930 |
| Commissioned: | 2 December 1931 |
| Decommissioned: | 1946 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1950s |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 493 tonnes surfaced, 716 tonnes submerged |
| Length: | 63.5 metres (208.3 ft) |
| Beam: | 6.2 metres (20.3 ft) |
| Draft: | 3.6 metres (11.8 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric, 1,016 hp |
| Speed: | 12.6 knots surfaced, 8.5 knots submerged |
| Range: | 1,575 nm at 10 knots surfaced, 75 nm at 4 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 30 men |
| Armament: | 4 x 533 mm torpedo tubes, 2 bow, 2 stern (6 torpedoes) 1 x 76 mm/48 Bofors 1 x 20 mm/60 Madsen 1 x 12.7 mm |
Vesihiisi was a Finnish 500 tonne Vetehinen class submarine that was constructed in the early 1930s and who served in the Finnish Navy during the second World War.
On 21 October, 1942 she torpedoed and sank the Soviet S class submarine S-7 south-west of Åland.[1]
