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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 ).
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]
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 ).
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.
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SUBSIM is an online publication founded by Neal Stevens in Jan. 1997 that focuses on naval and submarine computer game reviews, articles, [1] and news. Subsim is short for Submarine simulator . Subsim's forums have been online since 1999, with archives back to 2001.
Like all pre-UC-25 Type UC II submarines, UC-21 had a displacement of 417 tonnes (410 long tons) when at the surface and 493 tonnes (485 long tons) while submerged.She had a total length of 49.35 m (161 ft 11 in), a beam of 5.22 m (17 ft 2 in), and a draught of 3.65 m (12 ft).
Submarines were the biggest enemy of aircraft carriers, having sunk eighteen throughout the Second World War. Most notably, the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano was the largest carrier of the war, and the largest object sunk by a submarine when she was hit by four torpedoes from USS Archerfish. [5]