Finnish submarine Vesikko
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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 yard number CV 707. Vesikko was ordered by a Dutch engineering company In
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Crew of Vesikko (July 1941)
A view of the submarine as of 2017.
Inside Vesikko in the torpedo room.
Type II submarine
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The Type II U-boat was designed by Nazi Germany as a coastal U-boat, modeled after the CV-707 submarine, which was designed by the Dutch front company NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw Den Haag an
Finnish submarine Vesikko
…engineering company Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw (a German front company) in 1930 as a commercial submarine prototype, being the prototype for the German Type II submarines. Purchased by the Finnish before World War II, she saw service in the Winter War and Continuation War, sinking the Soviet merchant ship Vyborg as her…
U-1, a Type IIA submarine and lead ship of the class
U-9, a typical Type IIB boat