U 18 (German Armed Forces)

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U 18 in the port of Valletta , Malta
Type :	Submarine class 206A
Commissioning:	19th December 1973
Decommissioning:	March 31, 2011
Length:	48.60 m
Width:	4.60 m
Draft:	4.00 m
Displacement:	450 ts / 520 m³ (above water)
Drive:	2 × 440 kW MTU-DG, 1 × 1100 kW EM, 3 × 92 battery cells
Speed:	10 kn, under water: 17 kn
Armament:	8 BTR (wire-guided torpedo DM2A1) mine belt
Crew:	22 men, of them 5 officers 6 Portepee NCOs 11 NCOs
Commanders:	Oskar Behrendt (1st in command) Lars Johst Tim Hullmann Frederic Strauch
Whereabouts:	Kiel (spare parts warehouse of the Navy of Colombia)

U 18 ( ship identification S 197) was a submarine of the submarine class 206 of the German Navy . It was put into service on December 19, 1973 for the 3rd submarine squadron and converted into the modernized class 206A between April 1990 and March 1992. The sponsor city was Külsheim . U 18 was decommissionedon March 31, 2011; it has served as a spare parts store for the Colombian Navy in Kiel since 2012.

Web links

Commons : U 18  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Submarine class 206A on "www.marine.de"