Tag: submarine
Type II Uboats were a mainly coastal submarine designed and built for the Kriegsmarine between the early 1930’s and midd 1940’s., with a few varients from A – D with differing tonnages from a surfaced tonnage of 250, to a tonnage of 314 on the D varient. These were primarily used for training and re-establishing…
Project 50 was a late WW1 German design for a submarine which would carry 4 – 150mm guns, and possessed 10 torpedo tubes, which for its time was very impressive. For propulsion, steam turbines were used instead of diesel engines. In terms of size it sits at around 125 meters long and almost 12 meters…
U-65 was a uboat designed and built for the German navy during ww1, and had a fairly successful career. Construction began in June 1915 and she was completed by March 1916. Between 1916 and Late October 1918 it sank a variety of vessels from armed yaughts and mine laying vessels to cargo vessels, before being…
The Type VII D U-boat was a vessel designed and built for the German navy during World War 2, and were constructed in the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel.There purpose was to lay mines and hunt convoys with some of them seeing minor victories during the battle of Atlantic. Only half a dozen were ordered…