- Type 202 submarine
The Type 202 was a short lived class of German
submarine s. Design of these very small submarines started in1957 by Ingenieurkontor Lübeck (IKL). It was intended to built 40 Type 202 mini submarines with a six man crew but technical difficulties and doubts about their usefulness reduced them to three, and of those three for trials, to be further reduced to two. The boats were in service only a few months and were scrapped shortly after.They were one of the few military
U-Boat s not bearing "U-numbers", probably since they were never intended for combat use. Instead they were named after important German engineers in submarine constructions (like Wilhelm Bauer)."Hans Techel" was built with traditional
propeller andrudder s (similar to theType 205 submarine s), but "Friedrich Schürer" had a rotatableKort nozzle instead.List of ships
References
* [http://www.spiegel.de/sptv/nachtclub/0,1518,360731,00.html Die U-Boote der Marine seit 1955] - Spiegel online (in German)
* [http://www.die-marine.de/_deutsch/schiffe/subm.htm#1.4%20Klasse%20202 Die deutsche U-Boot Waffe] - www.die-marine.de
* [http://www.oced.de/Bootstypen/deutschland%20III/klasse%20202.htm Klasse 202] oecd.de
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