Finnish Navy — Submarine
Finnish submarine Vesihiisi
Service
- as Vesihiisi2 December 1931 — 19462,193 days of the war
Vetehinen-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Vesihiisi
- Builder
- Crichton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland
- Ordered
- 4 March 1927
- Laid down
- 1927
- Launched
- 1 August 1930
- Commissioned
- 2 December 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)
- Speed
- 12.6 knots (23.3 km/h, 14.5 mph)
- Range
- 1,575 nmi (2,917 km)
- Complement
- 30
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Vesihiisi was a Vetehinen-class submarine of the Finnish Navy. Her keel was laid at Crichton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland in 1927. Launched on 1 August 1930, she entered service on 2 December 1931.
Three ships of the class were built.
The boat displaced 485 long tons submerged. She measured 63.5 m (208 ft) long with a beam of 6.2 m (20 ft). Her designed speed was 12.6 knots, and 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, 1016 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 Vesihiisi on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://www.winterwar.com/forces/finnavy.jpg The image is SA-picture (SA=sota-arkisto: war archieve) from the book ""Talvisodan Historia 1", page 72 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons