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DANISH ROYAL NAVY (DENMARK)

SUBMARINES

HAVMANDEN submarines (1938-1942)

Havmanden 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Havmanden H1   Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen 8.1936 19.6.1937 8.1938 scuttled 29.8.1943, salvaged and recommissioned 1946, stricken 7.1950
Havfruen H2   Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen 9.1936 6.11.1937 5.1939 scuttled 29.8.1943, salvaged and recommissioned 1946, stricken 7.1950
Havkalen H3   Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen 11.1936 3.3.1938 7.1939 scuttled 29.8.1943, salvaged and recommissioned 1946, stricken 7.1950
Havhesten H4   Orlogsværftet, Copenhagen 6.1939 11.7.1940 9.1942 scuttled 29.8.1943, salvaged and recommissioned 1946, stricken 7.1950

Displacement standard, t

320

Displacement normal, t

335 / 407

Length, m

47.5

Breadth, m

4.65

Draught, m

2.84

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Burmeister & Wain diesels / 2 Brown-Boveri electric motors

Power, h. p.

1200 / 450

Max speed, kts

15.3 / 7.2

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

Havmanden, Havfruen, Havkalen: 2 x 1 - 40/60 Bofors M36, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 5 - 450 TT (3 bow, 2 stern, 5)

Havhesten: 1 x 1 - 40/60 Bofors M36, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 5 - 450 TT (3 bow, 2 stern, 5)

Electronic equipment presumably hydrophone

Complement

25

Diving depth operational, m  

Project history: Design of Danish Admiralty. Building of the fifth submarine of this class, Í5, was cancelled after German invasion in 1940.

Modernizations: 1940, Havmanden, Havfruen, Havkalen: - 1 x 1 - 40/60

Naval service:  All submarines were scuttled by crews 29.8.1943 at Copenhagen.

Havmanden 1938

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