Submarines of the HVEDE class (1938):
Have technological
developments
gone too far?
During many years the Navy has been in involved
in developing technologically advanced weapons systems.
By Johnny E. Balsved
There is probably no doubt that the Danish navy
has worked on many different projects over the years, some have been public and
some have been more secretive.
The purpose has likely been to improve the Navy,
the tactics, the ships and the weapons.
I have received the photo seen below from an
unnamed source.
The photo appears to reveal an unknown, and
perhaps secret, modification experiment involving one of the H-class submarines.
The experiment likely took place toward the end of
the 1930's.
Three of the four
H-class submarines, left the
HAVKALEN, in the middle the
HAVMANDEN and to the right the
HAVFRUEN with the strange modification.
(Photographer unknown)
Bottle opener rather than depth charges?
Despite intense research in many archives I have
not succeeded in finding out what the purpose of this experiment might have
been.
Perhaps some submariners simply reckoned that it
was better to be hunted by a bottle opener rather than depth charges?
Did the Naval Dockyard know something that no one
else was aware of back then?
Officially the HVEDE (wheat) beer was launched
only in 2001!
The original photo
For the sake of good order I am also including the
photo which was published in the media around the same time.
-237-1999.jpg)
Three of the four
H-class submarines, left the
HAVKALEN, in the middle the
HAVMANDEN and to the right the
HAVFRUEN.
(Photo: Archives of the Royal
Danish Naval Museum)
Translated by J. D. Nielsen
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