Finnish Navy — Submarine
Finnish submarine Iku-Turso
Service
- as Iku-Turso13 October 1931 — 19462,193 days of the war
Vetehinen-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Iku-Turso
- Builder
- Crichton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland
- Ordered
- 4 March 1927
- Laid down
- 1927
- Launched
- 5 May 1931
- Commissioned
- 13 October 1931
- Decommissioned
- 1946
- Fate
- Scrapped 1950s
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, submerged
- 485 long tons (493 t)
- Length
- 63.5 m (208.3 ft)
- Beam
- 6.2 m (20.3 ft)
- Draught
- 3.6 m (11.8 ft)
- Range
- 1,575 nmi (2,917 km)
- Complement
- 30
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Iku-Turso was a Vetehinen-class submarine of the Finnish Navy. Crichton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland laid her keel in 1927. Launched on 5 May 1931, she entered service on 13 October 1931.
She was one of three ships of her class.
The boat displaced 485 long tons submerged. She measured 63.5 m (208 ft) long with a beam of 6.2 m (20 ft). She carried a complement of 30.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3.0 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1946.
She was broken up for scrap.
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, 1,016 hp
- Armament
- 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes, 2 bow, 2 stern (6 torpedoes)
- 20 mines in vertical shafts
- 1 × 76 mm/48 Bofors
- 1 × 20 mm/60 Madsen
- 1 × 12.7 mm
- Added in 1942:
- Depth charge rack (4 depth charges)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Finnish submarine Iku-Turso on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://users.tkk.fi/~jaromaa/Navygallery/ — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons