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Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
more than 324 units	Flenderwerke, Lübeck; Ansaldo, Genoa: more than 324 units	3/1944 - 11.1944: more than 324 units	unknown	none	unknown

100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels

Names more than 324 units

Builders

Flenderwerke, Lübeck; Ansaldo, Genoa: more than 324 units

Commissioned

3/1944 - 11.1944: more than 324 units

Losses

unknown

Transfers

none

Discarding unknown

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	6.3
Length, m	9.04
Breadth, m	1.57
Draught, m	1.37
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 Opel petrol engine / 1 SSW lectric motor
Power, h. p.	32 / 13
Max speed, kts	6.5 / 5.3
Fuel, t	petrol 0.11
Endurance, nm(kts)	125(5) / 8.5(5.3)+8(2.5)
Armament	2 - 533 TT (side-drop collars, 2)
Complement	1
Diving depth operational, m	20

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Project history

 The first German midget submarines with surface machinery: automobile petrol engine was used. Diving depth was 20m. Lead midget Adam has gone out on trials 29.3.1944. Though about 110 submarines of this type participated in operation, they were considered as extremely unsuccessful because of low endurance and imperfect machinery.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.