Brandtaucher
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Vinony's link graph records 382 inbound references to Brandtaucher, and connects out to H. L. Hunley, Bundeswehr Military History Museum and Germany.
It is catalogued under topics including 1850 in the German Confederation, 19th-century submarines and German inventions.
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Key facts
- Ship.display_title
- ital
- Ship/image.image
- Bundeswehrmuseum Dresden 7bis.jpg
- Ship/image.image_caption
- Brandtaucher on display at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum, Dresden
- Ship/career.country
- Germany
- Ship/career.flag
- 60px
- Ship/career.name
- Brandtaucher
- Ship/career.builder
- Schweffel & Howaldt, Kiel
- Ship/career.launched
- 1850
- Ship/career.fate
- Sank, 1 February 1851 Raised, 5 July 1887
- Ship/career.status
- Museum ship
- Ship/characteristics.type
- Submarine
- Ship/characteristics.propulsion
- Cranked propeller
- Ship/characteristics.complement
- 3
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Wikidata facts
- Manufacturer
- Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft
- Designed by
- Wilhelm Bauer
- Image
- Bundeswehrmuseum Dresden 8.jpg
- Length
- 8.07
- Has use
- museum ship
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- Commons category
- Brandtaucher (submarine, 1850)
- Commons gallery
- Brandtaucher
- country of registry
- Germany
- beam
- 2
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|Internal mechanism of the Brandtaucher submarine in Dresden thumb|The Brandtaucher submarine cutaway model in Dresden, Germany thumb|Sketch of the Brandtaucher (from an 1896 book)
Brandtaucher (German for Fire-diver) was a submersible designed by the Bavarian inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer and built by Schweffel & Howaldt in Kiel for Schleswig-Holstein's Flotilla (part of the Reichsflotte) in 1850. The Brandtaucher is the oldest known surviving submarine in the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brandtaucher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.