Marc..
The Welfreighter and the Welman are complete different designs.
And the Welman was used operational in Norway. At least four boats. Without succes.
One is in a Noway museum and one is:
A friend found some years ago with a metal detector a sideruder of a Welman in a German forest near the baltic coast were a former Midget miliary Biber base was. Means the German catch at least one. In the ruder was a rough square cutout of 2" - obviously they need the metal for something else or they check the metallurgy.
vbr Carsten
"Marc de Piolenc"<piolenc@archivale.com> schrieb:
The Welfreighter story in Wikipedia barely mentions the Welfreighter's
predecessor, the disastrous Welman. Imagine a minisub with NO periscope
and very poor depth control, intended for military application. Okay,
you can start breathing now - it was never used operationally.
The reason the X craft and the Chariots worked, and the Welxxx did not,
is that the former were designed and built by people who actually knew
boats and naval operations, while Col. Dolphin had neither of those
qualifications and would not accept advice from anybody who did.
Marc
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On 2/24/2011 3:42 AM, JimToddPsub@aol.com wrote:
Welfreighter that Carsten mentioned and Chariot type sub. -JT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfreighter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_torpedo
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