Name V-80 Commissioned Never commissioned Displacement 76 t (75 long tons) Length 22 m | Yard number 597 Fate Scuttled, May 1945 Launched 14 April 1940 Weight 76 tons | |
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Type Type V midget submarine Builder Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | ||
The V-80 (German: Versuchs-U-Boot V 80) was a 76-ton experimental submarine and the only representative of the German Type V design produced for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.
The prototype was completed in 1940 in Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel. The 4 man vessel was designed to test the Walter hydrogen peroxide-based turbine propulsion system. Its range was 50 nmi (93 km; 58 mi) at 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph).
The only earlier attempt to use a chemical reaction based air-independent propulsion system was in the Spanish submarine the Ictineo II.
This midget submarine led to the design of the German Type XVII submarine.
References
German submarine V-80 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA