Bengt Rasin

Rear Admiral Bengt Göran Rasin, né Larsson (17 April 1922 – 2 January 2013) was a Swedish Navy officer.

[3] He passed studentexamen at the Vasa högre allmänna läroverk in 1941 and after mandatory military service became an officer candidate in the Swedish Navy on the 20 June the same year with number 6.

[7] The best acting sub-lieutenants in each course also got to make long journeys, whereby Rasin temporarily had to stop his submarine service for a trip with the cruiser HSwMS Gotland to Rio de Janeiro.

Rasin attended the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in the United Kingdom in 1961[2] and he served as captain of the submarine HSwMS U3 in 1962.

[12] In 1978, Rasin became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, Section II, Naval Studies.

Rasin's great interest in sailing made, among other things, that he was chairman of the organizing committee for the Tall Ships' Races in 1986, when Gothenburg for the first time constituted final destination.