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the Walter boat (TYPE XXVI) was using hightest hydrogen
peroxide for its gas turbines? It had a displacement of 600 tons, a compliment of 25 men, reached submerged 24 knots and maintained it for over 24 hours. After the German surrender 3 prototype boats and all construction plans and fabrication tools fell into Russian hands.
the Allies built at the end of WW II merchant ships at the rate of
1 million tons a month? This rate was more than U-Boats could sink.
since mid-September 1943 U-Boats used Acoustic Torpedoes
(TYPE T-5) against destroyers? They followed the propeller noise. The British then countered with 'FOXERS' in form of a squawker buoys to lead torpedoes astray.
Did you know that the United States Navy submarines sank 214 naval and 1,178 merchant ships in World War II?
From the data compiled and sent by CAPTAIN ROBERT THEW (333-+-1987) we learn that the 2nd largest ship ever sunk by a submarine was the 42,348 ton liner EMPRESS OF BRITAIN. She was sunk on 28 October, 1940 by U-32 under Kplt Hans Jenisch.
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