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B1 submarines (1923-1930)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
B1     MV Horten 1915 1.8.1922 1923 sold 1946
B2     MV Horten   15.8.1923 1924 captured by Germany 9.4.1940, BU
B3     MV Horten   25.1.1924 1926 scuttled 9.4.1940
B4     MV Horten   19.12.1923 1927 captured by Germany 9.4.1940, BU
B5     MV Horten 1925 17.6.1929 10.1929 captured by Germany 9.4.1940 (UC1)
B6     MV Horten 1925 4.9.1929 5.1930 captured by Germany 9.4.1940 (UC2)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t420
Displacement normal, t

 / 545

Length, m

51.0

Breadth, m

5.33

Draught, m

3.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Sulzer diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

900 / 700

Max speed, kts

14.5 / 10.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)2900(9) / 150(3)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/28 Bofors, 4 - 450 TT (bow, 6)

Complement

23

Diving depth operational, m60


Standard scale images


<i>B1</i> 1940
B1 1940


Project history

Single-hulled submarines of Holland type, built in Norway under US design. To the Second World War beginning they have become outdated.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

B1 in July, 1940 has left to England where it was used as training till July, 1944. B2, B4, B5 and B6 were captured by German troops at Kristiansand (B2 and B5), Horten (B4) and Florö, the Sunn-fjord (B6) in period from 9.4 till 18.5.1940 First two were broken up, and B5 and B6 after repair were commissioned by Kriegsmarine as UC1 and UC2 in November, 1940 and November, 1941, respectively. They used for training, UC1 was broken up and UC2 scuttled 3.5.1945. B3 was scuttled by crew at Tromsö 9.6.1940 to avoid capture.