Type 202 class mini Submarine German Navy

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Type 202 class Submarine

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Units:

UNIT	laid down	launched	commissioned	decommissioned	fate
S 172 FGS Hans Techel	October 10, 1961	March 15, 1965	October 14, 1965	December 15, 1966	scrapped
S 173 FGS Friedrich Schürer	October 10, 1961	November 10, 1965	April 6, 1966	December 15, 1966	scrapped

Specifications:

Builder:
Atlaswerke, Bremen, Germany

Displacement: 100 tonnes surfaced, 137 tonnes submerged
Length: 23,1 meters (75 feet 9 inches)
Beam: 3,4 m (11 ft 2 in)
Draft: 2,7 m (8 ft 10 in)
Depth: 100+ meters (test depth)
Crew: 6
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h) submerged, 6 knots (11 km/h) surfaced

Range:
400 nautical miles (740 km) at 4 knots (7,4 km/h) surfaced
160 NM (300 km) at 3 knots (5,6 km/h) submerged

Propulsion:
1 x diesel-engine (243 kW / 326 hp)
1 x motor-generator (257 kW / 345 hp)
1 x silent running electric motor (20 kW / 27 hp)
1 shaft / 1 propeller

Armament:
2 x 21-inches / 533 mm torpedo tubes for 2 x heavy weight torpedoes (no reload) or 4 naval mines

Systems:
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The Type 202 was a short lived class of German submarines. Design of these very small submarines started in 1957 by Ingenieurkontor Lübeck (IKL). It was intended to build 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-Boats 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 and rudders (similar to the Type 205 submarines), but Friedrich Schürer had a rotatable Kort nozzle instead.

Both units were built by Atlaswerke, Bremen, Germany.

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