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[edit] Interesting

This could be interesting to add to this article (but I'm not a specialist so I won't add it myself).

• The Soviet designation was S-363 (not U-137. This was a lie the crew told the Swedish navy).
• Soviet spy (in Sweden at the time) Boris Grigorjev recently claimed (according to tv4 in his new book) that the U-137 indeed had faulty navigational equipment (due to a Danish fishing net, I think it was) but also a drunken crew - and that it was only a mistake. Boris Grigorjev was present (for the Soviet embassy) when the Soviet submarine crew was interrogated.
• Captain: Anatolij Michajlovitj Gusjtjin, Political Officer: Vasilij Besedin
• The submarine may have carried nuclear weapons. Swedish Defence Research Institute measured something what was almost certain uranium-238 through the hull.

I found this too: "S-363 - Ordzhonikidze (Ordzhonikidze Yard, Leningrad) - serial no. 252 - laid down 12.1.56 - launched 16.11.56 - completed 17.9.57; ran aground 27.10.81 near the Swedish Naval Base in Karlskrona, after having lost its radio direction finder in a fishing vessel trawl 18.10.81; 1990's decommissioned, sold to Sweden as a museum boat."

Kricke 02:02, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

U-137 came from the captain calling it Ubåt-137 (submarine-137) the U-137 was never something used by the Soviets, in fact the soviets had 3 names for all their vessels, 1 secret one not so secret and one public. --Darkwand (talk) 04:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Accuracy of the linked site?

Just wondering whether the site linked to at the end of the article, compunews.com, is credible at all?

It's full of both grammatical and spelling errors, not to mention some pretty grave factual errors regarding other things(such as stating that Olof Palme was killed in 1987, he was killed in Feb 1986).

Aside from that, the site also seems to mix facts with opinions quite liberally(interchangeably sometimes?).

And finally, the general style of writing makes the site look like it was written by someone in their early teens.

RealSunner 13:14, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nuclear torpedo?

As far as I recall the speculation was that it had a nuclear mine rather than a torpedo since the submarine was considered too slow (I think) for having nuclear torpedos. // Liftarn (talk)

Hard to know we knew it had nuclear weapons onboard but can only speculate as to what was carries. --Darkwand (talk) 04:49, 12 January 2008 (UTC)