Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] U 26 for sale

[Alex Wolfe <awolfe_98@yahoo.com>]

  I don't suppose I should even bother asking how much
they want for them :-) - It does bring us back to the
"time-share" sub concept that was tossed around a
while back though... 

--- Carsten Standfuß <MerlinSub@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi submadmans, hi Karl,
>  
> today I get the information that the German Navy 
> wants to sale 6 units of her coastal 206 class 
> Diesel-electric submarines - and start with U 26
> first. 
> 
> They are real small for a military sub. 
> Only 48,6 m length (159,6ft) and 4,6m beam (15ft).
> The displacement is 456/500 ts. Crew of 21 
> if full armed with 8 bow-torpedotubes. 
> But I ask an officer of the watch - he told
> me if the diesel is running - you need only two
> persons
> to run. Runs 10 kn on the surface and 17 kn dived. 
> 
> Made from a special type of stainless steel there is
> 
> no corosion on any part of the sub. Built 18 units
> from
> 1971 - 1974. An older sister is displayed at 
> WWW.webtagon.com/submarines and than U 10 or U 9. 
> (On one of the U 9 pictures you can see me at the
> bow compartment just in the moment I firing one 
> "sorry-mistake"-Torpedo into the hangar with the
> older 
> airplanes. :-) 
> 
> But you need a harbour with at lees 4,3m (14ft)
> deep. 
> 
> Carsten
> 

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