Type 206 submarine
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 U-15 at Kiel Week 2007. |
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| Class overview | |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Type 206A submarine |
| Displacement: | 450 t, surfaced; 498 t, submerged |
| Length: | 48.6 m |
| Beam: | 4.6 m |
| Draft: | 4.5 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 MTU 12V 493, 4-stroke 600 hp (441 kW) diesel engines, each coupled with an Asea Brown Boveri-generator 1 Siemens-Schluckert-Werke 1100 kW electric motor driving single five (Type 206) or seven (Type 206A) blade propeller |
| Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h), surfaced; 17 knots (31 km/h), submerged |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi at 5 knots, surfaced; (8,300 km at 9 km/h) 228 nmi at 4 knots, submerged (420 km at 7 km/h) |
| Test depth: | >200 m |
| Complement: | 23 |
| Armament: | 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes, 8 DM2A1 Seeaal (206) or DM2A3 Seehecht (206A) torpedoes; 24 mines can be carried externally |
The Type 206 is a class of diesel-electric submarines (U-boats) developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche-Werft AG (HDW). Its design is based on the preceding Type 205 submarine class. These small and agile submarines were built during the Cold War to operate in the shallow Baltic Sea and attack Warsaw Pact shipping if the war turned hot. The pressure hulls were built out of non-magnetic steel to counter the threat of magnetic naval mines and make detection with MAD sensors more difficult.
Of the 18 submarines built for the Bundesmarine (West German Navy), 12 were modernized in the early 1990s and were re-designated as Type 206A; the others have been decommissioned. The current German Navy is starting to decommission some 206A vessels, with more of the new Type 212 submarines being commissioned.
A slightly modified variant of the Type 206 (which includes the distinctive dome, or bulge, in the front of the boat), the Gal class submarine for the Israeli Navy was built to Israeli specifications as the Vickers Type 540 in the UK rather than Germany for political reasons. Three such boats were built, the first one being commissioned in 1976. When the Israeli navy received its new Dolphin class submarines (also built by HDW), the Gals were retired. As of 2006, one had been scrapped and two had been sent to HDW in an attempt to find a buyer for them. When no buyer was found, one of the submarines was returned to Israel for display in the Haifa naval museum.
[edit] List of boats
| Pennant number |
Name | Call sign |
Laid down | Launched | Com- missioned |
Decom- missioned |
Fate |
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| S192 | U13 | DRDG | April 19, 1973 | September 23, 1997 | scrapped | ||
| S193 | U14 | DRDH | April 19, 1973 | September 23, 1997 | scrapped | ||
| S194 | U15 | DRDI | June 1970 | June 1972 | July 17, 1974 | ||
| S195 | U16 | DRDJ | November 1970 | August 1972 | November 9, 1973 | ||
| S196 | U17 | DRDK | October 1970 | October 1972 | November 28, 1973 | ||
| S197 | U18 | DRDL | April 1971 | October 1972 | December 19, 1973 | ||
| S198 | U19 | DRDM | November 9, 1973 | August 23, 1998 | scrapped | ||
| S199 | U20 | DRDN | May 24, 1974 | September 26, 1996 | scrapped | ||
| S170 | U21 | DRDO | August 16, 1974 | June 3, 1998 | scrapped | ||
| S171 | U22 | DRDP | November 1971 | March 1973 | July 26, 1974 | ||
| S172 | U23 | DRDQ | March 1972 | May 1973 | May 2, 1975 | ||
| S173 | U24 | DRDR | March 1972 | June 1973 | October 16, 1974 | ||
| S174 | U25 | DRDS | July 1971 | May 1973 | April 19, 1973 | January 31, 2008 | |
| S175 | U26 | DRDT | July 1972 | November 1973 | March 13, 1975 | November 9, 2005 | |
| S176 | U27 | DRDU | October 16, 1974 | June 13, 1996 | Scrapped | ||
| S177 | U28 | DRDV | October 1972 | January 1974 | December 18, 1974 | June 30, 2004 | |
| S178 | U29 | DRDW | January 1972 | November 1973 | November 27, 1974 | December 31, 2006 | |
| S179 | U30 | DRDX | December 1972 | April 1974 | March 13, 1975 | January 31, 2007 |
Notes:
- After its decommissioning, U21 had an ever-changing history: First it should have been sold to Indonesia as Cundomani. After the deal failed it was about to be scrapped in Itzehoe, but HDW managed to salvage it for the planned companies museum in Kiel. After that had to be given up, U21 was gifted to the city of Eckernförde and towed there. For a short time it had been a well accepted tourist attraction/technology museum, but because of local politics it was sold for scrap and broken up.
- U13, U14, U19 and U20 were also to be sold to Indonesia. There names would have been Nagarongsang, Nagabanda, Bramastra and Alugoro.
- The twelve surviving submarines are all upgraded Type 206A ones.
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