The Archive · 1930

A New German Submarine

Berlin, Mar. 19.

Professor Oswald Flamm, of the Technical High Schoo}, has designed Jo new type of submarine, which is Jaimed to be superior in speed and power to anything in existence. Its chief weapon isan torpedo showing no wake, As Germany is not permitted to build submarines, and as the pro-1 is unable to finance even the construction of a model vessel, it is likely to remain on paper unless foreign Power becomes interested:

Professor Flamm new type of: to cary four six-inch guns as compared with one carried by the British vessels of the Oberon class, and will torpedo tubes. ' Further-vessel will be armoured have a speed on the surface of 22 knots. as compared with the 16 knots of the Oberon class of which are not armoured.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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