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2 years ago
AndersG
Do you see 4 torpedo tubes in the picture?
I can't - but I know I don't know anywhere near as much about WWI submarines as you do.
Cheers,
Anders
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6 years ago
AndersG
I'm fairly sure it had only one periscope. Google can find you various plans of the UC I type, there seems to be some differences that could either be down to accuracy of the plans or differences among the instances of the type. You can also find some pictures of the captured UC 5 that was transported around for publicity purposes.
There are also some very nice documents - a translated ma
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7 years ago
AndersG
There is also a short passage about an encounter with UB 10 including use of the machine gun (but no details of it) on the pages 177-182 in Werner v. Langsdorff (ed.), "U-Boote am Feind", 1937. I have found a scanned PDF of that book in one of the online libraries but, unfortunately, I have not recorded where.
In that book is also the only interior picture (torpedo room of UB 16) of a
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7 years ago
AndersG
As per Werner Fürbringer (UB 2)'s book ("Alarm! Tauchen!" or similar, I have the modern English translation but couldn't find it right now) it had to be brought inside before diving to remain functional.
Cheers,
Anders
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8 years ago
AndersG
I have found some documents that might be useful at the dreadnoughtproject.org. See
There are also some general arrangement drawings that can be found by searching the web.
Best regards,
Anders
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