Type 205 submarine

Type 205 submarine U-1 (S180)
Class overview
Builders:
Operators:
Preceded by: Type 201 submarine
Succeeded by: Type 206 submarine
In commission: 19672005
Completed: 13
Laid up: 1
Retired: 9
Preserved: 3
General characteristics
Type: Submarine
Displacement:
  • 450 long tons (457 t) surfaced
  • 500 long tons (508 t) submerged
Length: 43.9 m (144 ft)
Beam: 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Draft: 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced
  • 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) submerged
Range:
  • 4,200 nmi (7,800 km) at 5 kn (9.3 km/h) surfaced
  • 228 nmi (422 km) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h) submerged
Test depth: 100 m (330 ft)
Complement: 4 officers, 18 enlisted
Armament:

The Type 205 was a class of German diesel-electric submarines. They were single-hull vessels optimized for the use in the shallow Baltic Sea. The Type 205 is a direct evolution of the Type 201 class with lengthened hull, new machinery and sensors. The biggest difference though is that ST-52 steel is used for the pressure hull since the Type 201's non-magnetic steel proved to be problematic. Type 206, the follow-on class, finally succeeded with non-magnetic steel hulls.

The Type 205 was in service with the Royal Danish Navy until 2004, in which it was known as Narhvalen class. The Danish boats differed slightly from the German ones to meet special Danish demands. Responsible for the design and construction was the Ingenieurkontor Lübeck (IKL) headed by Ulrich Gabler.

List of boats

Submarines built for the Bundesmarine:
Pennant
number
Name Call
sign
Launched Com-
missioned
Decom-
missioned
Fate
S180 U-1 June 6, 1967 November 29, 1991 scrapped
S181 U-2 October 11, 1966 March 19, 1993 scrapped
S183 U-4 November 19, 1962 August 1, 1974 scrapped
S184 U-5 July 4, 1963 May 17, 1974 scrapped
S185 U-6 July 4, 1963 August 22, 1974 scrapped
S186 U-7 March 16, 1964 September 30, 1965 scrapped
S187 U-8 July 22, 1964 October 9, 1974 scrapped
S188 U-9 April 11, 1967 June 3, 1993 Museum ship, Technikmuseum Speyer
S189 U-10 November 28, 1967 February 16, 1993 Museum ship, Wilhelmshaven
S190 U-11 DRDE June 21, 1968 October 30, 2003 Museum ship, Burgstaaken, Fehmarn
S191 U-12 DRDF January 14, 1969 June 21, 2005
Submarines built for the Kongelige Danske Marine:
S320 Narhvalen September 10, 1968 February 27, 1970 October 16, 2003 scrapped
S321 Nordkaperen December 18, 1969 December 22, 1970 February 2, 2004 scrapped

These last two boats were built by the Howaldtswerke, in Denmark at The Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen.

Notes:

See also

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