HSwMS Neptun (1979) explained
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| Ship Country: | Sweden | | Ship Name: | Neptun | | Ship Builder: | Kockums, Malmö | | Ship Laid Down: | March 1974[1] | | Ship Launched: | 13 August 1979 | | Ship Commissioned: | 5 December 1980 | | Ship Decommissioned: | 1998 | | Ship Status: | Museum ship |
| Header Caption: | [2] | | Ship Displacement: | - 980abbr=onNaNabbr=on surfaced
- 1150LT submerged
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| | Ship Beam: | 5.7m (18.7feet) | | Ship Draught: | 18m (59feet) | | Ship Propulsion: | - 1 × MTU 16V652 diesel engine
- 2100lk=inNaNlk=in
- 1 × Jeumont-Schneider Electric motor 1150abbr=onNaNabbr=on
| | Ship Speed: | - 10kn surfaced[3]
- 20kn submerged
| | Ship Complement: | 19 | | Ship Armament: | - 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × 400 mm torpedo tubes
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HSwMS Neptun is the second of three s, 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.[4]
Further reading
- Book: Baker, A.D.. The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 1998–1999. 1998. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland, USA. 1-55750-111-4.
- Book: Gardiner. Robert. Chumbley. Stephen. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. 1995. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland, USA. 1-55750-132-7.
- Book: Moore, John. Jane's Fighting Ships 1985–86. 1985. Jane's Yearbooks. London. 0 7106-0814-4.
Notes and References
- Moore 1985, p. 454.
- Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 447.
- Baker 1998, p. 820.
- Web site: Neptun – a real submarine!. Karlskrona Marinmuseum . 7 March 2014.
