Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Another Oil Barrel Sub

[Marc de Piolenc <piolenc@archivale.com>]

What a beauty! When I was a child dreaming of my own sub, one of my 
ideas was to make one from oil barrels.

Radius of action: 1 mile is a bit disappointing. I think it would have 
been possible, even then, to do better than that.

Best,
Marc

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On 9/23/2010 8:20 PM, Jens Laland wrote:
> I just received a second-hand book, named ...
>
> "Faszination U-Boot, Museums-Unterseeboote aus aller Welt"
> by Florian and Stefan Lipsky.
> Published by Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH., Hamburg in  2000.
> ISBN 3-7822-0792-0
> 143 pages
>
> ... in which there is a reference to a similar oil-barrel sub as the one
> built by our Chinese colleague, although this one was built in 1992 by
> British Waterways, ref image
> http://traktoria.org/files/submarines/Saucy_Sue.jpg and specs
> http://traktoria.org/files/submarines/Saucy_Sue.txt
>
> Is there anyone having more information on this peculiar underwater craft?
>
> Best regards,
> Jens Laland
>
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