HSwMS Draken (1960)
Appearance
![]() HSwMS Draken in 1961
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History | |
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Name | Draken |
Namesake | Draken |
Builder | Saab Kockums |
Launched | 1 April 1960 |
Commissioned | 4 April 1962 |
Decommissioned | 1982 |
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Fate | Scrapped, 1983 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Draken-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 69.3 m (227 ft) |
Beam | 5.1 m (17 ft) |
Draught | 5.3 m (17 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Complement | 36 |
Armament | 4 × 533mm torpedo tubes(bow, 12 torpedoes) |
HSwMS Draken (Dk), Sw. meaning dragon, was the lead boat of the Draken-class submarine of the Swedish Navy.[1]
Construction and career
HSwMS Draken was launched on 1 April 1960 by Saab Kockums, Malmö and commissioned on 4 April 1962. She became the first Swedish submarine (but the only one in the class) to be fitted with a rubber-coated hull to reduce the surface area for active sonar detection.
She was decommissioned in 1982 and scrapped in Landskrona in 1983.[2]
Gallery
- HSwMS Draken
References
- ^ Klintebo, Roderick (2004). Det svenska ubåtsvapnet 1904–2004. Stockholm: Literatim. ISBN 91-973075-3-X.
- ^ von Hofsten, Gustaf; Waernberg, Jan (2003). Svenskt Militärhistoriskt Bibl. Stockholm: Örlogsfartyg. ISBN 91-9731873-6.