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Divers discover wreckage of Soviet WWII submarine in Baltic Sea

10.06.2009
A team of Swedish and Finnish divers have located the wreckage of a Soviet WWII S-type diesel submarine near the Aland islands in the Baltic Sea, a Swedish news agency said on Tuesday.

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The S-2 submarine sank on January 2, 1940 in a minefield during the Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland (November 1939-March 1940). The entire 50-member crew was lost.

"After searching through a section of water the wreck has been found in the Aland Sea near the [maritime] border between Sweden and Finland by a Swedish-Finnish dive team," the TT agency cited a team statement.

The team started the search for the sub more than a decade ago in April 1999.

Swedish authorities as well as the Russian embassy in Sweden have been informed about the discovery, the team said.

S-type medium submarines, unofficially dubbed Stalinets, were one of the most widely produced and deployed submarine class in the Soviet Navy during World War II.

Boats of this class were extremely successful and achieved more victories than any Soviet submarine. In all, they sank 82,770 gross registered tons of merchant shipping and seven warships, which accounts for about one-third of all tonnage sunk by Soviet submarines.

Izvor: www.en.rian.ru


Baltic Sea divers find sunk WWII Soviet submarine
   
(STOCKHOLM) After a decade- long search, a team of Baltic Sea divers has discovered the wreckage of a Soviet submarine that sank with dozens of sailors aboard during World War II, one of the divers said on Tuesday.

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Lost and found: The vessel exploded in 1940, probably after hitting a mine, killing all 50 crew members on board

They found the S-2 submarine near the Aland Islands between Sweden and Finland in February but only announced it on Tuesday because they wanted to confirm the identity of the vessel, team member Marten Zetterstrom said.

He said that all 50 crew members died when the vessel exploded in 1940, probably after hitting a mine. He declined to give the exact location.

'I think it's been 10 years since people started searching. I've been part of it for four-five years,' Mr Zetterstrom said.

Markus Lindholm, an Aland-based specialist who studied pictures of the wreck, said that the claim appeared to be true.

'According to all available sources, no other submarine has sunk in those waters,' said Mr Lindholm, curator of maritime archaeology at Finland's National Board of Antiquities.

The submarine was last spotted at surface level by a lighthouse keeper on Market island, west of the Aland archipelago, Mr Lindholm said. He said that the keeper's notes of the incident have been preserved and describe how the vessel headed north before diving and entering a Finnish minefield, after which an explosion was heard.

Mr Lindholm said that pictures showed the front of the submarine was missing, apparently torn off by an explosion.

'The mine must have hit the submarine hull near the torpedo tubes and then the whole thing blew up,' he said.

Mr Zetterstrom said that the divers had informed Swedish and Russian authorities about the discovery.

Swedish Defence Ministry spokesman Mikael Ostlund said that the ministry had not had a chance to confirm the claim.

Anatoly Kargapolov, a spokesman at the Russian Embassy in Stockholm, confirmed that the embassy had been informed about the submarine but added that there had not been 'any official reaction from Moscow'.


Izvor: www.businesstimes.com.sg

Submarina?!  ::)

I kod nas se još od "Velikog rata" sve do 1945 koristio izraz Sumaren.

Многи ће од њих бити плен,
Кад дође швапски СУМАРЕН.
Много је Срба пропало,
У мору хладном остало.

Радости нема ни за трен,
Наиђе швапски СУМАРЕН,
Сви моле светог Николу,
Његову силу на мору

Одломци из песме Креће се лађа Француска (1925).

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Today, she’s permanently berthed in Severomorsk, where she serves as a museum ship. This is one of the K-class submarines, nicknamed "Katiusha" by sailors. In the spring of 1942, command of this ship was entrusted to Captain 3rd Rank Nikolay Lunin. This was the beginning of one of the most vivid pages in the history of the Soviet Navy.

What gallant deeds can K-21 boast of? Watch our video and find out!

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