home

fighting ships of the world

KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

SUBMARINES

ADAM midget submarine (1944)

Adam 1944

Names

Adam

Builders

Flenderwerke, Lübeck: Adam

Commissioned

3/1944: Adam

Losses

unknown

Transfers

none

Discarding

unknown

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

3

Length, m

7.00

Breadth, m

0.96

Draught, m

0.96

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 Opel petrol engine / 1 SSW electric motor

Power, h. p.

32 / 13

Max speed, kts

7 / 6

Fuel, t

petrol 0,11

Endurance, nm(kts) 91(7) /

Armament

2 - 533 TT (side-drop collars, 2)

Complement

1

Diving depth operational, m 20

Project history: First prototype of German midget submarines with surface propulsion engine, test ship for latest Biber-type.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

© Ivan Gogin, 2008-14