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Marder Midget Sub

 


 
"Marder" (Eng: Marten), another small sub built at the end of the war. This actually was a manned torpedo with a war-head torpedo underneath.

About 300 were built.

 

Description: Midget U-boat
First launched: 1944 (?)
Complement, Off / Men 1
Displacement surf: ?
Displacement subm: ?
Length: ?
Beam, max: ?
Depth: ?
Max speed surfaced: ?
Max speed submerged: ?
Radius surfaced: ?
Radius submerged: ?
Max diving depth: ?
Diving time, stationary: ?
Diving time, alarm moving: ?
Oil fuel carried: ?
Torpedo tubes, bow / stern: x
Nr of torpedoes / mines: 1 / 0
Guns fitted: x
   

Off = Officers, surf = surfaced, subm = submerged,
max = maximum, Nr = number, t = tons, m = metres, mm = millimetres,
kt = knots, sm = sea miles, sec = seconds, AA = Anti Aircraft, rds = rounds
+ = more than, - = less than, x = No/none, ? = unknown
Please note that some figures are to be considered approximate.
Main sourse for The Boats Section is the excellent book "U-boats
under the Swastika" by J.P. Mallman Showell, ISBN: 0 7110 0379 3.

 

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