Draft:HSwMS Belos (1885)

History
Sweden
Name	Belos
Builder	Lindholmens Verkstad
Launched	1885
In service	1941
Out of service	early 1960s
Fate	Sold for scrap in late 1960s
General characteristics
Displacement	755 tonnes
Length	59 metres (194 ft)
Beam	8.0 metres (26.2 ft)
Draft	4.1 metres (13 ft)
Speed	11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Complement	captain; 5-6 officers; 5-6 NCOs; 10-12 enlisted;

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Declined by KylieTastic 3 months ago. Last edited by KylieTastic 3 months ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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HSwMS Belos was a submarine rescue ship in the Swedish Navy. Belos was built by Lindholmens Verkstad^[1] in Gothenburg in 1885 as a salvage ship. She was purchased by Swedish government in 1940 and manned by Swedish Navy crew and divers, becoming Navy's first submarine rescue and salvage ship (before that, Swedish Navy relied on civilian contractors for these operations).

In 1942 HMS Belos was fitted with a McCann rescue chamber. In 1943 she took part in the search for missing submarine HSwMS Ulven that struck a German mine. Belos stayed in service until the early 1960s, when the next HSwMS Belos took over.

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^ "Sjöhistoriska museet" (in Swedish).

[1] "Sjöhistoriska museet" (in Swedish).

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