HSwMS Bävern (Bä), (Swedish for "The beaver") was the fifth Hajen-class submarine of the Swedish Navy.[1]
 HSwMS Bävern
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| Name | Bävern |
| Namesake | Bävern |
| Builder | Saab Kockums |
| Launched | 3 February 1958 |
| Commissioned | 29 May 1959 |
| Decommissioned | 1 July 1980 |
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| Fate | Scrapped, 1981 |
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| Class and type | Hajen-class submarine |
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| Length | 65.8 m (216 ft) |
| Beam | 5.1 m (17 ft) |
| Draught | 5.0 m (16.4 ft) |
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| Complement | 44 |
| Armament | 4 × 533mm Torpedo Tubes (bow, 8 torpedoes) |
Construction and career edit
HSwMS Bävern was launched on 3 February 1958 by Saab Kockums, Karlskrona and commissioned on 29 May 1959.
On 19 August 1961, while in Lysekil, she was involved in a bizarre collision with a Volvo P544 car which rolled downhill onto a pier.[2]
She was decommissioned on 1 July 1980 and later sold for scrap in Odense in 1981.[3]
Gallery edit
- HSwMS Bävern
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HSwMS Bävern on 25 January 1961 -
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![Collision in Lysekil[2]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/A_collision_between_a_car_and_a_submarine.jpg/120px-A_collision_between_a_car_and_a_submarine.jpg)
Collision in Lysekil[2]
![Collision in Lysekil[2]](/wiki/File:A_collision_between_a_car_and_a_submarine.jpg)
References edit
- ^ Klintebo, Roderick (2004). Det svenska ubåtsvapnet 1904–2004. Stockholm: Literatim. ISBN 91-973075-3-X.
- ^ a b "Kollision mellan bil och ubåt" [Collision between car and submarine.]. digitaltmuseum.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-10-10.
- ^ von Hofsten, Gustaf; Waernberg, Jan (2003). Svenskt Militärhistoriskt Bibl. Stockholm: Örlogsfartyg. ISBN 91-9731873-6.
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