The wreck of a Russian WW2 Submarine Found

The wreck of a submarine which is believed to have been sunk by a torpedo during the Second World War has been discovered in the northern archipelago of Stockholm.

It was a private Swedish diving team which found the wreck at a depth of at least 40 meters, northeast of Söderarm on Monday, July 27. This team also discovered the champagne laden wreck of ketch Jönköping last summer.

According to the divers, the forward part of the wreck and both deck guns appear to be undamaged. From the observed configuration the submarine was identified as of the Russian "S" class.

Most probably this is the wreck of the Russian submarine S7, built in 1939, which was sunk by the Finnish submarine Vesihiisis on the 21st of October 1942. Among the four survivors of a crew of 46, which were captured by the Finns, was the commander, Captain Sergej Lisin.

Two Swedish ships, the SS Margareta and the MT Luleå, had been sunk by the S7 earlier in 1942, on July 9 and July 11 respectively. A few days earlier the S7 had managed to escape through the Finnish and German minefields in the Gulf of Finland and before it was torpedoed in October it succeeded in sinking two more ships.

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Updated 1998-07-31 by Lars Bruzelius

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