Soviet submarine S-99, a 1960 experimental submarine of the Soviet Navy
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It was not until 1981, when the Soviet submarine U 137 (Whiskey on the rocks) ran aground, that S. Moen, the director of the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten saw the abandoned Hitra in a newspaper image.
The missile has never seen combat; the closest thing it has come to being used in anger was during the "Whiskey on the Rocks" incident when in 1981 a soviet (NATO code Whiskey Class) submarine ran aground outside the naval station in Karlskrona.
Under the command of Marinesko, then 32, on 30 January 1945, at Stolpe Bank off the Pomeranian coast, S-13 sank the 25,484-ton German liner Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with civilians and military personnel, with three torpedoes.
In the early 1980s a series of submarine incidents occurred within Swedish territorial waters, the most famous of which was U 137 which ran aground outside Karlskrona 1981.