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UC-3 was the first submarine to be detected and sunk using a hydrophone. UC-3 ' s fate have different version: One is on 23 April 1916 she was detected using a hydrophone, trapped in a net, and then quickly sunk after a large explosion. [3] The ship that sank her was the anti-submarine trawler Cheerio, captained by Thomson. [8]
UC3 Nautilus was a privately built Danish midget submarine. It was built over a three-year period by Peter Madsen and a group of volunteers, and cost approximately US$ 200,000 to build (1.5 million DKK ).
A total of 113 Type UC III submarines were ordered by the Imperial German Navy, but only 25 U-boats were completed before the Armistice with Germany in 1918. Of those, 16 U-boats actually served in the war. 54 building orders were cancelled in 1918, while 34 U-boats were never completed and broken up in the ship yards.
The murder of Kim Wall, known in Denmark as Ubådssagen (transl. "The submarine case"), [2] took place on 10 August 2017, after Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall boarded the midget submarine UC3 Nautilus, in Køge Bugt, Denmark, for a pre-arranged interview of its owner, Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen.
Madsen built three submarines: UC1 Freya, UC2 Kraka and UC3 Nautilus. The Nautilus was a privately built midget submarine, launched on 3 May 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Constructed over three years, it cost approximately US$200,000 to build (1.5 million DKK). [21]
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The crew gathered in front of the static rocket test setup in November 2011. Copenhagen Suborbitals was founded in 2008 by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen as a non-profit, crowd-funded project that discussed most of their operations on blogs [7] [8] and lectures.
Danish UC submarines may refer to one of the following three privately designed, built, and operated submarines by the inventor Peter Madsen and associates at Ubadsklubben Freya. UC1 Freya , laid down 2001; launched 2002; decommissioned 2006; sunk 2008