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Some 80 Japanese Type D ("Koryu") Midget Submarines in a dry dock at Kure, 19 October 1945. A midget submarine is any submarine under 150 tons, [1] typically operated by a crew of one or two but sometimes up to six or nine, with little or no on-board living accommodation.
HA. 19 (also known as Japanese Midget Submarine "C" by the United States Navy) is a historic Imperial Japanese Navy Type A Kō-hyōteki-class midget submarine that was part of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
The Type A Ko-hyoteki (甲標的甲型, Kō-hyōteki kō-gata, Target 'A', Type 'A') class was a class of Japanese midget submarines (Kō-hyōteki) used during World War II. ...
The Yono-class submarine (occasionally confused with Yugo-class) is a class of North Korean miniature submarines, produced for domestic use as well as for export.Also referred to as the Yeono class, [3] these submarines displace 130 tons, significantly less than North Korea's larger 1,800-ton Romeo-class submarines. [4]
The X class was a World War II midget submarine class built for the Royal Navy during 1943–44. It was substantially larger than the original Chariot manned torpedo.. Known individually as X-Craft, the vessels were designed to be towed to their intended area of operations by a full-size "mother" submarine – usually one of the T class or S class – with a passage crew on board, the ...
The Molch was based on torpedo technology, and carried two G7e torpedoes attached externally on either side of the craft. It was fully electrical and was created for coastal operations, with a range of 64 km (35 nmi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph).
Biber (German for "beaver") was a German midget submarine of the Second World War.Armed with two externally mounted 53-centimetre (21 in) torpedoes or mines, they were intended to attack coastal shipping.
Seehund (German: "seal"), also known as Type XXVII, was a midget submarine built by Nazi Germany during World War II.Designed in 1944 and operated by two-man crews, it was used by the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during the closing months of the war, sinking nine merchant vessels and damaging an additional three, while losing 35 boats, mostly attributed to bad weather.