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S.M. U-1 - Germany's first military sub
« on: September 07, 2015, 01:38:32 pm »
That's a project I built before starting the Nautilus. Old petroleum powered boat from 1906 and actually the first military sub of the Kaiser's Navy. The U-1 was a small boat and today it's displayed Munich, in the Deutsches Museum. Its a large model, 180 cm long and it took me about 3 years to build it. It has movable snorkels, two 750 ml Engel piston tanks, and works quite nicely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1uLFkOqd8Y

I won't go through all stages here, but I post some pictures of the CAD model and the finished thing. All photos of the build can be found here:

http://s1262.photobucket.com/user/MaschinenMusik/library/Modelsubmarine%20SM%20U-1?sort=4&page=1














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Re: S.M. U-1 - Germany's first military sub
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2015, 02:24:34 pm »
There's a nice piece of lateral thinking. "Why not put a rudder above the hull so it works when the boat submerges?"  Clever.
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Re: S.M. U-1 - Germany's first military sub
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2015, 05:03:50 pm »
It still turns like a brick stone. The props are behind the rudders.....
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Re: S.M. U-1 - Germany's first military sub
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2015, 06:12:59 pm »
Still, we didn't see that again until USS Nautilas!
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Re: S.M. U-1 - Germany's first military sub
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2015, 07:05:49 pm »
I think these early German boats were heavily influenced by Simon Lake's designs.
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« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2015, 08:24:10 pm »
That is a lovely model enhanced with the schnorkels working! It already looks like a very effective naval weapon despite being the first of hundreds of U Boote.

Did you design this one to be a kit or just a well developed one off?
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« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2015, 09:54:49 pm »
I have all the molds for the hull, the rudders, the conning tower an some additional parts, but nothing as comprehensive as for the Nautilus. So the stuff I could offer are much more rudimentary. But in theory it could be a kit.
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« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2015, 10:03:47 pm »
The U-1 was a design based on boats delivered for Russia (Karp-class). The engineer in charge at Krupp actually was a Spanish guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_U-1_%28Germany%29
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« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2015, 09:27:48 pm »
What a multi national event! I will look up the karp. I assume there were few differences but hey lets see what turns up.
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« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2015, 09:47:37 am »
Is there any books you could recommend or a open source for drawings?  I'm not a big fan of R/C submarines but this could make a nice static model or an attractive surface runner.
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Re: S.M. U-1 - Germany's first military sub
« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2015, 10:21:10 am »
Just the info on the web:


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