Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index image Career Laid Down: 31 May 1965 Launched: 3 October 1965 Purchased: 11 July 1990 Commissioned: 10 October 1990 Fate: in service General Characteristics Displacement: 370 tons surfaced, 435 tons submerged Length: 47.20 meters Beam: 4.70 meters Draught: 3.80 meters Propulsion: two MTU 1100 hp diesel engines, one 1700 hp electric motor Speed: 10 knots surfaced, 17 knots submerged Complement: 24 officers and men Armament: eight 533mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes, eight torpedoes KDM Sælen (S323), is one of the three Tumleren-class small coastal submarines of the Kongelige Danske Marine (Royal Danish Navy). She was built as a Type 207 submarine by Rheinstahl-Nordseewerke of Emden, Germany in 1965 for the Kongelige Norske Marine (Royal Norwegian Navy) and served for 25 years as KNM Uthaug before being purchased by Denmark in 1990. Her international call sign is OUCJ. On 4 December 1990, Sælen sank while being towed from Copenhagen to Aarhus. On 17 December, she was raised by the German floating crane Roland and taken to Aarhus for repair. On 10 August 1993, diving approval was issued and the boat was recommissioned. Sælen served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq from May 2002 until June 2003. To speed her return to her homeport of Frederikshavn after 385 days of deployment in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, she was transported on board the heavy-lift ship Grietje. "Sælen" means "seal" in English. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.