Finnish Navy — Submarine
Finnish submarine Vesikko
Service
- as Vesikko30 April 1934 — 19592,193 days of the war
Finnish submarine Vesikko
Particulars
- Name
- Vesikko
- Builder
- Crichton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland
- Ordered
- 9 October 1930
- Laid down
- 7 March 1931
- Launched
- 10 May 1933
- Commissioned
- 30 April 1934
- Struck
- 1959
- Fate
- Museum ship
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 375 long tons (381 t)
- Displacement, surfaced
- 250 long tons (254 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 298 long tons (303 t)
- Length
- 40.9 m (134.2 ft) OA
- Beam
- 4.08 m (13.4 ft)
- Draught
- 3.79 m (12.4 ft)
- Speed
- 13 knots (24.1 km/h, 15 mph)
- Range
- 1,350 nmi (2,500 km)
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
Vesikko was a submarine built for the Finnish Navy. Her keel was laid at Crichton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland on 7 March 1931. She entered service on 30 April 1934, having been launched on 10 May 1933.
The boat displaced 250 long tons surfaced and 298 long tons submerged. She measured 40.9 m (134 ft) long with a beam of 4.1 m (13 ft). Her designed speed was 13 knots.
Her main battery was one 20 mm (0.8 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register in 1959.
She has been preserved.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel-electric, 2 diesel engines each 350 PS
- 2 double-acting electric motors each 180 PS
- Armament
- 3 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes in the bow
- 5 torpedoes
- 1 × 20 mm/60 Madsen AA gun
- 1 × 12.7 mm machine gun
Sources
- Facts harvested from Finnish submarine Vesikko on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Submarine Vesikko Museum collections — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons