Type 205 submarine
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 Museum ship U9 in the Technikmuseum Speyer | |
| Type 205 General characteristics | |
| Displacement | t surfaced 500 t submerged |
| Length | 43.9 m |
| Beam | 4.6 m |
| Draft | 4.3 m |
| Speed | kn 17 kn |
| Range | 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 submarines. They were single-hull vessels optimized for the use in the shallow baltic sea. The Type 205 is a direct evolution of the Type 201 class with lengthend hull, new machinery and sensors. The biggest difference though is that ST-52 steel is used for the pressure hull since the Type 201's non-magnetic steel proved to be problematic. Type 206, the follow-on class, finally succeeded with non-magnetic steel hulls.
In service with the Danish Navy, the Type 205 is known as Narhvalen 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
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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 experimantal 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
External links
- [Submarines of the NARHVALEN Class] - Danish Naval History
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