Forel (German: Forelle - Trout) was a midget
submarine designed by Raimondo Lorenzo D'Equevilley-Montjustin and by built
by Krupp in Kiel, Germany. The Forelle proved moderately successful but
did not attract German naval attention. The Imperial Russian Navy purchased
the boat in April 1904 for service in the Russo-Japanese War. It operated
out of Vladivostok from August 1904 until it sank in an accident in 1910.
Forelle was a single-hull boat designed as an
experimental craft with internal ballast and compensating tanks. She had
fixed angled aft planes, and movable forward units for dive control. This
boat had to be carried into action on board a surface ship and launched
close to its target, as she was not fitted with a separate surface propulsion
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1903
Name: |
Forel |
Builder: |
Kiel, Germany |
Launched: |
1903 |
Commisioned: |
1904 |
Fate: |
sunk in 1910 |
Displacement: |
16 tons |
Length: |
13.1 m |
Beam: |
5.5 m |
Speed: |
4 kn (7.2 km/h) |
Range: |
25 nm submerged at 4 knots |
Complement: |
4 |
Propulsion: |
1 electric motor 60shp |
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