Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] U 26 for sale

["Karl & Shirin Fuller" <fullerk@voyager.co.nz>]

Carsten,
Your subs for sale make my imagination run wild with possibilities but where
my imagination goes, my wallet fears to tread.......
How much are they ? Are they cheaper without torpedo tubes ? Yeh, write :-)
Regards,
Karl.
----- Original Message -----
From: Carsten Standfuß <MerlinSub@t-online.de>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: 21 March 2000 08:17
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] U 26 for sale


> Hi submadmans, hi Karl,
>
> today I get the information that the German Navy
> wants to sale 6 units of her coastal 206 class
> Diesel-electric submarines - and start with U 26 first.
>
> They are real small for a military sub.
> Only 48,6 m length (159,6ft) and 4,6m beam (15ft).
> The displacement is 456/500 ts. Crew of 21
> if full armed with 8 bow-torpedotubes.
> But I ask an officer of the watch - he told
> me if the diesel is running - you need only two persons
> to run. Runs 10 kn on the surface and 17 kn dived.
>
> Made from a special type of stainless steel there is
> no corosion on any part of the sub. Built 18 units from
> 1971 - 1974. An older sister is displayed at
> WWW.webtagon.com/submarines and than U 10 or U 9.
> (On one of the U 9 pictures you can see me at the
> bow compartment just in the moment I firing one
> "sorry-mistake"-Torpedo into the hangar with the older
> airplanes. :-)
>
> But you need a harbour with at lees 4,3m (14ft) deep.
>
> Carsten
>