Type 205 submarine

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 205-class profile
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.

Type 205 submarine U-1 (S180)

Class overview
Builders Howaldtswerke, Kiel
Copenhagen Naval Dockyard
Operators German Navy
Royal Danish Navy
Preceded by Type 201 submarine
Succeeded by Type 206 submarine
Subclasses Kobben-class submarine
In 1962–2005
commission
Completed 13
Retired 13
Preserved 3
General characteristics
Type Submarine
Displacement 419 tonnes (412 long tons)
surfaced
455 t (448 long tons)
submerged
Length 44.30 m (145.3 ft)
Beam 4.59 m (15 ft 1 in)
Responsible for the design and construction was the Draft 3.80 m (12 ft 6 in)
Ingenieurkontor Lübeck (IKL) headed by Ulrich
Propulsion 2 × 440 kW (590 hp)
Gabler.
Mercedes-Benz 4-stroke V12
diesel engines each coupled
List of boats to a BBC generator
1 × 1,100 kW (1,500 hp) SSW
electric motor
Speed 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
surfaced
17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
submerged
Range 3,950 nmi (7,320 km;
4,550 mi) at 4 knots
(7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) surfaced
228 nmi (422 km; 262 mi) at 4
knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph)
submerged
Test depth 100 m (330 ft)
Complement 4 officers, 18 enlisted
Armament 8 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo
tubes
Torpedoes and naval mines

Plans of the 205 submarine

German submarine U-9 in Speyer

Submarines built for the Bundesmarine:

 Pennant Call Com- Decom-
Name Launched Fate
number sign missioned missioned
17 29
26 June
S180 U-1 February November scrapped
1967
1967 1991

15 July 11 October 19 March

S181 U-2 scrapped
1967 1966 1993
19
25 August 1 August
S183 U-4 November scrapped
1962 1974
1962
20
4 July 17 May
S184 U-5 November scrapped
1963 1974
1962

30
24 July 22 August
S185 U-6 January scrapped
1963 1974
1963
10 April 16 March 12 July
S186 U-7 scrapped
1963 1964 1974

19 June 22 July 9 October

S187 U-8 scrapped
1963 1964 1974
Museum ship,
20 October 11 April 3 June
S188 U-9 Technikmuseum
1966 1967 1993
Speyer
28 16
5 June Museum ship,
S189 U-10 November February
1967 Wilhelmshaven
1967 1993

Museum ship,
9 February 21 June 30 October
S190 U-11 Burgstaaken,
1968 1968 2003
Fehmarn
10
14 January 21 June
S191 U-12 September scrapped
1969 2005
1968

Submarines built for the Royal Danish Navy:

10 27
16 October
S320 Narhvalen September February scrapped
2003
1968 1970
18 22
2 February
S321 Nordkaperen December December scrapped
2004
1969 1970

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

Notes:
 U-1 was given back to Nordseewerke and was used to test an experimental closed-cycle
diesel air-independent propulsion system before being scrapped
U-11 was transformed to a Type 205A double-hulled boat (the outer hull filled with
polystyrene foam to make it unsinkable) and used as torpedo target
U-12 was used for sonar trials as Type 205B

References
Karr, Hans (2014). Deutsche Uboote seit 1956 (in German). Stuttgart: Motorbuch.
ISBN 9783613037083.
Rössler Eberhard & Hans-Jochen Emsmann (1996). Vom Original zum Modell, Ubootklasse
205. (Bernard & Graefe Verlag GmbH & Co). ISBN 978-3-7637-6011-4.

See also
Kobben class submarine

External links
Submarines of the Narhvalen class (http://www.navalhistory.dk/English/TheShips/Classes/N
arhvalen_Class(1970).htm) - Danish Naval History

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