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Submarine Vesikko

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Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Submarine Vesikko
Phone:
+358 29 9530260

Address:
Suomenlinna | Susisaari B 79, Helsinki 00190, Finland

Vesikko is a submarine , which was launched on 10 May 1933 at the Crichton-Vulcan dock in Turku. Until 1936 it was named by its manufacturing codename CV 707. Vesikko was ordered by a Dutch engineering company Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw in 1930 as a commercial submarine prototype. Purchased by the Finnish before the war, she saw service in the Winter War and World War II, sinking the Soviet merchant ship Vyborg as her only victory. After the cease-fire with the Allies in 1944, Vesikko was retired. Finland was banned from operating submarines after the war and she was kept in storage until she was turned into a museum ship. Vesikko was one of five submarines to serve in the Finnish Navy. The other four were the three larger Vetehinen-class boats Vetehinen, Vesihiisi, Iku-Turso and the small Saukko. The word vesikko is the Finnish name for the European mink.
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