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SCHWERTWAL midget submarine (1945)


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Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding
SW1

H. Walter GmbH; SW1

1945: SW1

SW1 (1945)

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100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


Names SW1

Builders

H. Walter GmbH; SW1

Commissioned

1945: SW1

Losses

SW1 (1945)

Transfers

none

Discarding none


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement normal, t11.3
Length, m

11.2

Breadth, m

2.40

Draught, m 
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 Walter torpedo turbine

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

 / 25

Fuel, t

Walter mix 5

Endurance, nm(kts)108(15)+27(22)
Armament

2 - 533 TT (side drop-collars, 2)

Complement

2

Diving depth operational, m50


Standard scale images


<i>SW1</i> 1945
SW1 1945


Project history

Midget submarine with Walter torpedo turbine propulsion. Submarine could not had periscope, pilot should use acrylic cupola as on fighter airplane and aviation gyro-compass placed on aft vertical rudder.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.