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RE: Type XI found?
Posted by: Steve Cooper ()
Date: December 15, 2000 02:21PM

<HTML>The only mine-laying submarine ever built by the US was the Argonaut, which was lost in the Pacific to enemy action in WWII.(length, 381ft.) The submarines Narwhal and Nautilus were essentually the same design, but were not mine-layers.(371ft.) They survived the war and were scrapped. The Dolphin was a one-of design that was 319ft long. Everything else the US had was roughly Gato sized or smaller, (311ft.). The only US boat missing in the Atlantic was the Dorado, a Gato class. It is believed sunk in the Caribbean. It is very unlikely that the CA-35 object is a US sub.
The French Sulcouf was about the right size, but is supposed to be sunk in the Caribbean.
If the CA-35 object is a submarine that is 380ft long, it is as likely as not that it is a German type XI. Not very likely, but neither is any other answer.
If this sub does exhist, I suspect that it may have not have been attached to the Kregsmarine. The main use that these monster boats were put to was cargo haulers and troop carriers. The US Narwhal class could carry over 100 troops. I suspect that it would have been a spook boat.
But then, the most likely answer is that they got the length wrong.</HTML>

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Type XI found? Dietzsch 12/13/2000 10:58AM
RE: Type XI found? Fin Bonset 12/13/2000 12:56PM
RE: Type XI never lost Craig McLean 12/13/2000 09:22PM
RE: Type XI found? Capt. George W. Duffy 12/14/2000 12:21AM
RE: Type XI found? Craig McLean 12/14/2000 12:55AM
RE: Type XI found? Joe Brennan 12/14/2000 09:32AM
RE: Type XI found? william Engel 12/14/2000 08:17PM
RE: Type XI found? E. Dalder 12/15/2000 01:00AM
RE: Type XI found? Steve Cooper 12/15/2000 02:21PM
RE: Type XI found - Sonar Image Offer Trident Research 12/16/2000 07:34AM
RE: Type XI found? Craig McLean 12/16/2000 02:58PM


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