Submarines

[Taitennek]

Hi all!

 

Working on textdescriptions for Herman's PDB, I kindly ask you to help me....

with links to submarine sites.

I am looking for usefull links of the German submarines (type 205-214), but all replies about submarines are welcome!

 

Cheers,

Taitennek

[CV32]

If you don't already own the Harpoon 4 paper rules and annexes, I would suggest you consider the investment. They are really a wealth of information.

 

HazeGray has always been a great source for all things naval, but it looks like Andrew Toppan hasn't updated much of his website in quite a while, and its becoming dated rapidly.

 

The Global Security website is another useful one.

 

Google whatever submarine class or type you are looking for. You can find some great stuff fairly easily.

[Taitennek]

If you don't already own the Harpoon 4 paper rules and annexes, I would suggest you consider the investment. They are really a wealth of information.

 

HazeGray has always been a great source for all things naval, but it looks like Andrew Toppan hasn't updated much of his website in quite a while, and its becoming dated rapidly.

 

The Global Security website is another useful one.

 

Google whatever submarine class or type you are looking for. You can find some great stuff fairly easily.

Hey Brad!

 

Thanks for the response

These sites are on my favorite list already.

The Hazegray Underway site has not been updated since 2003, GS (global Security) is for my the main guideline and I have the Harpoon 4 paper rules at home. I'm using many more sites for reference (I will post a list later on this forum). Most of the sites do have informations I'm looking for (technical data), but I need more informations about the historical data. That's not a problem with the well known submarines, the problem is to find data of types which are not in service anymore or data of submarines of which only few have been built. These are the data I'm really looking for.

 

I invite all forum members to deliver as much historical data as possible.

You lads can send it to my private e-mail adress: frans-koenz@wanadoo.nl.

I promise to give feedback on the results (special topic on submarines).

 

Thanks,

Frans.

[CV32]

I can't offer any other links but hopefully the following will help a little at least:

 

Type 206

 

Name Number Laid down Launched Commissioned

U 13 S 192 15 Nov 1969 28 Sept 1971 19 April 1973

U 14 S 193 1 March 1970 1 Feb 1972 19 April 1973

U 15 [206A] S 194 1 June 1970 15 June 1972 17 July 1974

U 16 [206A] S 195 1 Nov 1970 29 Aug 1972 9 Nov 1973

U 17 [206A] S 196 1 Oct 1970 10 Oct 1972 28 Nov 1973

U 18 [206A] S 197 1 April 1971 31 Oct 1972 19 Dec 1973

U 19 S 198 5 Jan 1971 15 Dec 1972 9 Nov 1973

U 20 S 199 3 Sept 1971 16 Jan 1973 24 May 1974

U 21 S 170 15 April 1971 9 March 1973 16 Aug 1974

U 22 [206A] S 171 18 Nov 1971 27 Mar 1973 26 July 1974

U 23 [206A] S 172 5 March 1973 25 March 1974 2 May 1975

U 24 [206A] S 173 20 March 1972 26 June 1973 16 Oct 1974

U 25 [206A] S 174 1 July 1971 23 May 1973 14 June 1974

U 26 [206A] S 175 14 July 1972 20 Nov 1973 13 March 1975

U 27 S 176 1 Oct 1971 21 Aug 1973 16 Oct 1974

U 28 [206A] S 177 4 Oct 1972 22 Jan 1974 18 Dec 1974

U 29 [206A] S 178 10 Jan 1972 5 Nov 1973 27 Nov 1974

U 30 [206A] S 179 5 Dec 1972 26 March 1974 13 March 1975

 

Authorised 7 June 1969 from Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft (HDW) for 8 hulls, and Rheinstahl Nordseewerke for 10 hulls. Extensive mid-life conversion of 12 (Type 206A) was shared between Thyssen Nordseewerke (U23, 30, 22, 27, 15, 26) at Emden and HDW (U29, 16, 25, 28, 17, 18) at Kiel. Work started in mid 1987 and completed February 1992. First Squadron (Meersburg): four Type 205; six unmodernised Type 206; based at Kiel. Third Squadron: 12 Type 206A; based at Eckernforde.

 

Type 212

 

Design phase completed 1990 by IKL in conjunction with HDW and TNSW. The HDW/TNSW consortium expected to contract the building of the first batch of four in 1995. First of class was to enter service in 1999 if the project survived defence cutbacks in 1993. Hybrid fuel cell/battery propulsion based on the HDW prototype successfully evaluated in U1 in 1988-89. The first Type U212A submarine for the German Navy was named U31 at the Kiel shipyard of HDW on 20 March 2002. U31 began sea trials in the Baltic on 7 April 2003. U34, the fourth submarine of the 212A class, was launched in Emden in July 2005. U34 is the last unit of the German Navy's four units of the 212A Class that are being built at the Nordseewerke in Emden.