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. ''Neptun'' entered service in December 1980. The next year she was involved an international incident when the Soviet submarine ''U 137'' ran aground outside

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. The ''Näcken'' class were among the first Swedish submarines to have onboard computers. Her task in the eventuality of war would have been to attack enemy shipping and surveillance duties. ''Neptun'' was decommissioned in 1998 and laid up in Karlskrona. In 2008 she was donated to the Naval Museum

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, where she is after restoration on display since 2014.

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File:HMS Neptun (Nep) MM06007.jpg, HSwMS ''Neptun'' in drydock in 1998. File:HMS Neptun (Nep) MM06013.jpg, HSwMS ''Neptun'' in drydock in 1998. File:HMS Neptun (Nep) MM07429.jpg, Torpedo 613 being loaded into HSwMS ''Neptun'' Inside the museum on 31 July 2013. File:HMS Neptun (Nep) MM07432.jpg, Torpedo 613 being loaded into HSwMS ''Neptun'' Inside the museum on 31 July 2013. File:HMS Neptun (Nep) MM07436.jpg, Torpedo 613 being loaded into HSwMS ''Neptun'' Inside the museum on 31 July 2013. File:HMS Neptun (Nep) MM07433.jpg, Torpedo 613 being loaded into HSwMS ''Neptun'' Inside the museum on 31 July 2013. File:HMS Neptun (Nep) MM10731.jpg, HSwMS ''Neptun'' museum taken on 1 June 2015 in

. File:HMS Neptun (Nep) MM10720.jpg, HSwMS ''Neptun'' museum taken on 1 June 2015 in

. File:HMS Neptun (Nep) MM10728.jpg, HSwMS ''Neptun'' museum taken on 1 June 2015 in

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