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Re: Dropping keel design in older versions of U-boats
Posted by: Chris V ()
Date: October 12, 2007 11:10PM

I do not know if this feature was present on any U-boats.

A number of French submarines from the WW1 era had just such a feature. If needed keys could be turned inside the submarine and part of the keel would drop away.

The Emeraude-class submarine Rubis, Q43, sank to the bottom and was made buoyant again, in part, by releasing these "security weights."

The US Confederate submarine Hunely had a detachable keel ballast.

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Dropping keel design in older versions of U-boats Yoram Bar-Yam 09/30/2007 04:58PM
Re: Dropping keel design in older versions of U-boats DanOdenweller 09/30/2007 07:44PM
Re: Dropping keel design in older versions of U-boats Yoram Bar-Yam 10/01/2007 02:29AM
Re: Dropping keel design in older versions of U-boats DanOdenweller 10/05/2007 05:10PM
Re: Dropping keel design in older versions of U-boats Chris V 10/12/2007 11:10PM
Re: Dropping keel design in older versions of U-boats Thomas Horton 03/31/2008 04:49PM
Re: Dropping keel design in older versions of U-boats Funkmeister 06/12/2008 03:20PM
Re: Dropping keel design in older versions of U-boats Yoram Bar-Yam 06/12/2008 03:55PM


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