Type 205 submarine
 Museum ship U9 in the Technikmuseum Speyer |
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| Type 205 General characteristics |
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| Displacement | 450 t surfaced 500 t submerged |
| Length | 43.9 m |
| Beam | 4.6 m |
| Draft | 4.3 m |
| Speed | 10 kn 17 kn |
| Range | 4200 nm surfaced at 5 kn 228 nm submerged at 4 kn |
| Propulsion | 2 x 600 hp Mercedes-Benz V12-4-stroke-diesel
engines each coupled to a BBC generator 1 x 1100 kW SSW electric motor |
| Max. depth | 100 m |
| Launching tubes | 8 x 533 mm torpedo tubes |
| Magazine | torpedoes and naval mines |
| Complement | 18 enlisted, 4 officers |
The Type 205 was a class of diesel-electric German hunter-killer U-boat
submarines. They were single-hull vessels optimized
for the use in the shallow
In service with the Danish Navy, the Type 205 is known as Tumleren class. The Danish boats differ slightly from the German ones to meet special Danish demands.
List of boats
| Submarines built for the Bundesmarine: | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennant number |
Name | Call sign |
Launched | Com- missioned |
Decom- missioned |
Fate |
| S180 | U1 | June 6 1967 | November 29 1991 | scrapped | ||
| S181 | U2 | October 11 1966 | March 19 1993 | scrapped | ||
| S183 | U4 | November 19 1962 | August 1 1974 | scrapped | ||
| S184 | U5 | July 4 1963 | May 17 1974 | scrapped | ||
| S185 | U6 | July 4 1963 | August 22 1974 | scrapped | ||
| S186 | U7 | March 16 1964 | September 30 1965 | scrapped | ||
| S187 | U8 | July 22 1964 | October 9 1974 | scrapped | ||
| S188 | U9 | April 11 1967 | June 3 1993 | Museum ship, Speyer | ||
| S189 | U10 | November 28 1967 | February 16 1993 | Museum ship, Wilhelmshaven | ||
| S190 | U11 | DRDF | June 21 1968 | October 30 2003 | Museum ship, Burgstaaken, Fehmarn | |
| S191 | U12 | DRDE | January 14 1969 | June 21 2005 | ||
| Submarines built for the Kongelige Dansk Marine: | ||||||
| S320 | Narhvalen | September 10 1968 | February 27 1970 | October 16 2003 | mothballed | |
| S321 | Nordkaperen | December 18 1969 | December 22 1970 | February 2 2004 | mothballed | |
The German boats have been built by Howaldtswerke, the Danish by The Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen.
Notes:
- U1 and U2 have originally built as Type 201 submarines with pressure hulls made of non-magnetic steel, but were rebuilt as Type 205 with new pressure hulls out of normal steels after corrosion problems and small cracks have been detected.
- U1 was given back to Nordseewerke and had been used to test an experimental closed-cycle diesel air-independent propulsion system before being scrapped
- U11 was transformed to a Type 205A double-hulled boat (the outer hull filled with polystyrene foam to make it unsinkable) and used as torpedo target
- U12 was used for sonar trials as Type 205B
See also
| Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine | |
|---|---|
| Destroyers | 101A Hamburg | 103B Lütjens |
| Frigates and Corvettes | 122 Bremen | 123 Brandenburg | 124 Sachsen | F125 | 130 Braunschweig |
| Fast Attack Craft | 143 Albatros | 143A Gepard | 148 Tiger |
| Mine warfare | 332 Frankenthal | 333 Kulmbach | 352 Ensdorf | 742A Mühlhausen |
| Submarines | 205B | 206A | 212A |
| Auxiliary ships | 404 Elbe | 423 Oste | 441 Gorch Fock | 520 Barbe | 702 Berlin | 703 Walchensee | 704 Rhön | 720 Helgoland | 721 Eisvogel | 722 Wangerooge | 760 Westerwald |
External links
- Submarines of the NARHVALEN Class - Danish Naval History
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