Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Finding old blueprints

[MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten Standfuß)]

Charles Samardza schrieb:
> 
> Just thought I'd mention,  the 'Triburon' looks a lot like a modernized version of
> the Japanese 'Type A' midgets.

For me its a copy of the German test tank model Projekt "K"
(25,3 x 2,7 , 100 t ) from 1942 - no wonder about this, 
the design-team in spain was a "captured" German group.
But you are right The "K" was designed after Pearl Harbour. 
The germans ask the Japanese for information about this subs 
but get nothing - so they use pictures from the international
press...

>From the Japanese midget the "Koryu"(= Scaly Dragon) 
(D-class) developed from A-class via B- and C- class in one of the
famous submarines.

They are 26,21 m, beam 2,04m, displ.59,3 t. 150 PS Diesel (lorry)
for 8 kn on surface with 1000sm/8kn range. And 600 PS E-Engine
for 16 kn underwater for 320sm .. Crew of 5 and dive deep of
100m. (Also called : Ko-Hyotekis) 

In "Midget Submarines" by Paul J.Kemp, Warship fotofax , 
ISBN 1-85409-092-5 
Arms and armour Press
A cassell Imprint
Villiers House, 41-47 Strand
London WC2N 5 JE, England

on page page 9 - picture 11 is a picture shows hundreds
of them in a big Japanese drydock.
None saw action in WWII - time out error for Japan ..

Carsten