[PSUBS-MAILIST] Fw: II World War Personal Electric Delphin Submarine

Tue Feb 10 17:31:00 EST 2015

Hi Alec I never say it is authentic..  

I say that: from the archive : 

Alec this is maybe a German..

And was original a mine hunter bouy (Tiefendrachen or Scherschwimmer) 
from the 60-70ies - some of them have this kind of boltet skegs/fins. 
To easy remove damage fins. 

http://www.7tes-msg.de/museumsschiff/dresden-april-2009/raeum-1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Lindau-Klasse_Heck_mit_Winden.JPG

Clear the sub was not a navy device - the interior outfitting indicate
in all details a low level private build. 

vbr Carsten
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Its clear not authentic..  Not even close..

They wrote: 
Characteristics: 
 It is 40 inches total width (101 cm), 16 feet total lenght (4.90 mts),
and weighs 3086 lbs (1400 kg) . It has a 24 volts Siemens engine
(original) with 2.5 HP

The 3 only original delphin's was 100 cm diameter and 5,48 m long ,
displacment was 2,467 m3 or 2,664m3 
Inside installed was a complete Sternsektion of a 32 HP Torpedo G7e. 
The sub was a dynamic diver with a small harttank and weight and
displacement must be nearyl the same : around 2,5 ts - not 1,4..

3 Delphins was build..7-1944  U 2544,  2547, 2548 
Shells made at the same 400ts metal sheet press at the Borgward Car
facility, Bremen were the made the V2 rocket nose shells. 
Assambeld at the Ami-Budd facilities in Berlin. 
And all 3 were blown up at the war ends near Pöteniz- Lübeck. One was
"restored" and show in Florida with other midget from Italy and 
Germany in Florida (I think in Ft.Lauderdale) short after the war. Would
be interessting to figure out what with this no.3 was happend later in
the US. Maybe scrapped but maybe somewere still in store. 

vbr Carsten 

"Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
schrieb: 
That's interesting... I recall the same little sub being on sale in
Argentina about a year ago and Carsten saying he doubted it was
authentic. They must have got it to Miami in the hope of finding a buyer
more readily. 

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:35 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles
<personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

--- On Tue, 2/10/15, hank pronk <hankpronk at live.ca> wrote:

> From: hank pronk <hankpronk at live.ca>
> Subject: II World War Personal Electric Delphin Submarine
> To: "hanker_20032000 at yahoo.ca" <hanker_20032000 at yahoo.ca>
> Received: Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 1:33 PM
>
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/II-World-War-Personal-Electric-Delphin-Submarine-/291372734441?pt=Other_Boats
>
> Hey guys,
 That neat little German sub is on ebay.   They are asking 75K  I made
an offer but no luck.
Hank
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