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HSwMS Neptun (Nep)

HMS Neptun under bogsering till Kockums Karlskrona för översyn..jpg
Neptun under tow in 2011
History
Sweden
Name: Neptun
Builder: Kockums, Malmö
Laid down: March 1974
Launched: 13 August 1979
Commissioned: 5 December 1980
Decommissioned: 1998
Status: Museum ship
General characteristics
Class and type: Näcken-class
Displacement:
  • 980 long tons (1,000 t) surfaced
  • 1,150 long tons (1,170 t) submerged
Length:
  • 49.5 m (162 ft 5 in) oa
  • 44.0 m (144 ft 4 in) waterline
Beam: 5.7 m (18 ft 8 in)
Draught: 18 m (59 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:
  • 1 × MTU 16V652 diesel engine
  • 2,100 bhp (1,600 kW)
  • 1 × Jeumont-Schneider Electric motor 1,540 hp (1,150 kW)
Speed:
  • 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced
  • 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) submerged
Complement: 19
Armament:
  • 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • 2 × 400 mm torpedo tubes

HSwMS Neptun (Nep) is the second of three Näcken-class submarines, built to operate in the Baltic. Neptun entered service in December 1980. The next year she was involved an international incident when the Soviet submarine U 137 ran aground outside Karlskrona.

The Näcken class were among the first Swedish submarines to have onboard computers. Her task in the eventuality of war would have been to attack enemy shipping and surveillance duties.

Neptun was decommissioned in 1998 and laid up in Karlskrona. In 2008 she was donated to the Naval Museum Marinmuseum of Karlskrona, Sweden, where she is after restoration on display since 2014.


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