Vetehinen-class submarine
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 Vetehinen during her launching ceremony.
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Vetehinen class |
| Builders | Crichton-Vulcan |
| Operators |  Finnish Navy |
| Completed | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Submarine |
| Displacement | 493 tonnes surfaced, 716 tonnes submerged |
| Length | 63.5 m (208.3 ft) |
| Beam | 6.2 m (20.3 ft) |
| Draught | 3.6 m (11.8 ft) |
| Propulsion | Diesel-electric, 1,016 hp (758 kW) |
| Speed | 12.6 knots (23.3 km/h) surfaced, 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h) submerged |
| Range | 1,575 nmi (2,917 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) surfaced, 75 nmi (139 km) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h) submerged |
| Complement | 30 men |
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The Vetehinen-class submarine was a
Type VII
submarines.
The word vetehinen means a merman. Vetehinen-class submarines were designed as minelaying submarines and were built with mineshafts for 20 mines. Submarines had special inner rails for two torpedo tubes to enable 450 mm (18 in) torpedoes to be used instead of the 533 mm (21 in) torpedoes.
Submarines of the class
