HSwMS Vargen (1960)

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HSwMS Vargen
History
Sweden
NameVargen
NamesakeVargen
BuilderSaab Kockums
Launched20 May 1960
Commissioned15 November 1961
Decommissioned1989
Identification
  • Vg
  • Vgn
Motto
  • Lupus primus inter pares
  • (The foremost wolf among equals)
FateScrapped, 1989
General characteristics
Class and type
Draken-class submarine
Displacement
  • 770 t (758 long tons), surfaced
  • 950 t (935 long tons), submerged
Length69.3 m (227 ft)
Beam5.1 m (17 ft)
Draught5.3 m (17 ft)
Propulsion
  • 1 shaft diesel-electric
  • 2 Pielstick Diesels 1660 hp
  • 2 ASEA electric motors
Speed
  • 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) surfaced
  • 22 knots submerged
Complement36
Armament4 × 533mm torpedo tubes(bow, 12 torpedoes)

HSwMS Vargen (Vg),

Draken-class submarine of the Swedish Navy.[1]

Construction and career

HSwMS Vargen was

commissioned
on 15 November 1961.

She was

decommissioned in 1989 and scrapped later in Gävle.[2]

Gallery

References

  1. ISBN 91-973075-3-X
    .
  2. ISBN 91-9731873-6
    .


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