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Edited and
Designed by:

Johnny E. Balsved

SØULVEN (1911-1937)
(In English: The Sea Wolf)

Torpedo Boat SØULVEN

Classification

Type:

Torpedo Boat

Class:

SØRIDDEREN Class

Other Ships
in Class:

FLYVEFISKEN
SØRIDDEREN

Specifications

Built by:

Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen

Design:

Drawings by Jarrow, Glasgow, Scotland

Laid down:

1910

Launched:

1911

Commissioned:

1911

Decommissioned:

1937 ( from 1929 in the Naval Reserve)

Pennant Number:

D3

Int'l Call Sign:

n/a

Displacement:

230 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

-

55.40 m

5.49 m

1.95 m

Complement:

36 men

Propulsion:

5,000 Hp

Range:

n/a

Armament:

2 x 75 mm Guns
5 x 45 cm Torpedo Tubes
(later equipped with 1 x 8 mm Machine Gun)

Speed:

27.5 knots

History

Date:

Military Service:

1911-1914

Training Ship

August 1, 1914

Joined the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces as the Command Ship of the 1st Torpedo Boat Flotilla in the 1stk Squadron in the Sound

August 19,1915

Ordered to protect the British submarine E.13 aground at Saltholm. The CO, Lt.Cdr. Eduard Haack interfered, as the British sub is attacked by a German Torpedo Boat.

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September 25, 1917

2 Swedes are salvaged from a capsized dinghy off Lappegrunden (in the Sound). They turned out to be smugglers, even steeling the dinghy, and were handed over to the Danish Police authorities

December 1917

Guard Ship at an abandon wreck North of Lappegrunden as a navigational warning

June 1918

Assisting the Danish Police authorities searching for Swedish smugglers off Tisvilde, Northern Zealand. On June, 19 two dinghies manned by smugglers were arrested

1929

Transferred to the Naval Reserve

Commanders

Date:

Commanding Officer:

1914-1915

Lieutenant Commander Eduard Haack

Notes

None

Sources:

&

Torpedobåde gennem 100 år - Det danske torpedobådsvåben 1879-1979, by Hans Garde & Hans Chr. Bjerg, Marinehistorisk Selskab, Copenhagen, 1979 (ISBN 87-87720-02-7)

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Vore orlogsskibe fra halvfemserne til nu, by Kay Larsen, Nyt Nordisk Forlag/Arnold Busck, 1932

&

Vore Torpedobaade gennem 75 Aar, by R. Steen Steensen, Marinehistorisk Selskab, Copenhagen, 1953

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography