marder (submarine)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=TVA Marder.JPG |Ship caption=Marder on display at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum }} {{Infobox ship class overview |Name=Marder |Builders= |Operators={{navy|Nazi Germany}} |Class before= |Class after= |Subclasses= |Cost= |Built range= |In service range= |In commission range= |Total ships building= |Total ships planned= |Total ships completed= |Total ships cancelled= |Total ships active= {{circa|500}} |Total ships laid up= |Total ships lost= |Total ships retired= |Total ships preserved= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship type=Midget submarine |Ship class= |Ship displacement= |Ship length={{convert|8.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} o/a |Ship beam={{convert|0.533|m|in|abbr=on|0}} |Ship propulsion=AEG-AV 76 Eto, {{convert|12|PS|kW shp}} |Ship speed={{convert|3.2 |
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Marder (Pine Marten) was a German midget submarine developed from the Neger. The craft was {{convert|8.3|m|ftin}} long and unlike the Neger included a flooding tank in the nose allowing it to dive. Another improvement was the dome through which the pilot viewed the outside world that also served as the craft's entrance and exit was made openable from the inside.{{cite book |title=Weapons of Desperation German Frogmen and Midget Submarines of World war II |url=https://archive.org/details/weaponsdesperati00pate_929 |url-access=limited |last=Paterson |first=Lawrence |year=2006 |publisher=Chatham Publishing |isbn=978-1-86176-279-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/weaponsdesperati00pate_929/page/n32 49]–51}} Maximum diving depth was about {{convert|25|m|ft|0}}.{{cite book |title= Underwater Warriors |last=Kemp |first=Paul |year=1996 |publisher=Arms & Armour Press |isbn=1-85409-228-6 |pages=186–188}}
The submarine's first operations took place on the night of 2 August 1944, when Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine's Small Battle Units made their largest effort of the war. 58 human torpedoesBrown p. 116 of the Neger-type and 22 Linse vessels were launched against Allied shipping off Normandy as part of a combined operation with Negers and explosive Linse boats. One Royal Navy destroyer escort, {{HMS|Quorn|L66|6}} was sunk by a human torpedo along with one minesweeper, {{HMS|Gairsay}}, and one landing craft by the German motor boats; at a cost of 41 Neger and 22 Linsen craft.
References
{{commons category|Marder (Torpedo)}}
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Bibliography
- Brown, David. Warship Losses of World War Two. Arms and Armour, London, Great Britain, 1990. {{ISBN|0-85368-802-8}}.
- {{cite book|last1=Prenatt |first1=Jamie|last2=Stille|first2=Mark |title=Axis Midget Submarines: 1939–45 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |location=Oxford, UK |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4728-0122-7|name-list-style=amp}}
{{Kriegsmarine midget submarines}}
Category:World War II submarines of Germany
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