A rare glance into the heart of a WWI German U-boat

Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 11 months ago to History
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Kind of cool...WW1 U Boat, I don't think I would go to sea in it...
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  • Posted by SaltyDog 8 years, 11 months ago
    Pretty cool!

    Given the era, it's a pretty well designed boat. With a riveted hull however, she's not going very deep. At least not more than once.
    On a related topic, I saw a photo of Vlad the Bad inspecting a new Indian home designed and built sub, and of course, it was going to strike terror into the hearts of the West, blah, blah, blah. The interesting thing was that in the photo Putin was standing by the hatch on the outer casing and, you guessed it! Riveted hull! DING DING DING! We have a loser!
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    • Posted by $ 8 years, 11 months ago
      If they took their lessons from the Russians they may have a double hull, with the inner welded and the outer riveted, though riveting is a rather barbaric way to do it, but would not effect performance. The russians love double hulls.
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