X-1 (submarine)

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X-1 on a test drive
X-1 on a test drive
Overview
Keel laying June 8, 1954
Launch September 7, 1955
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning October 7, 1955
Decommissioning 16th February 1973
Whereabouts Exhibit
Technical specifications
displacement

25.4 t

length

15.1 m

width

2.13 m

Draft

1.88 m

crew

4th

drive

Walter drive
diesel engine (58 kW)
electric motor (11.2 kW)
1 screw with 5 blades
from 1957 diesel-electric drive (66 kW each)

speed

15 kn
from 1957 10 kn surfaced / 10.5 kn submerged

X-1 (sometimes referred to as USS X-1 ) was the name of the US Navy's only small submarine . It entered service in 1955.

Development of the boat began in the early 1950s at the Fairchild Engine Division . The aim of the project called for by the US Navy was to investigate the possibilities of micro-submarines penetrating harbors and to develop and test defensive options from this. The developed boat was 15.1 m long and weighed 25.4 t. It could dive 60 m deep and was powered by a Walter turbine with hydrogen peroxide , and there was also a diesel-electric drive .

The keel-laying of the boat took place on June 8, 1954 in Deer Park on Long Island . The launch was on September 7, 1955, a month later the boat was put into service with the Navy in New London ( Connecticut ). Then there were numerous trips by boat. On May 20, 1957, the hydrogen peroxide tank exploded. As a result, the Walter drive was expanded, the boat was initially only diesel-electric and was temporarily deactivated on December 2nd of that year. Until 1960 it was in Philadelphia outdated and in December of the same year in Annapolis ( Maryland stationed), from where it in the coming years for the Naval Research Laboratory hydrographic research in the Chesapeake Bay undertook. On February 16, 1973, the boat was decommissioned and initially exhibited on the grounds of the North Severn naval base near Annapolis; in April 2001 a transfer to the US Navy Submarine Force Museum in Groton (Connecticut) took place .

  • Bow view

  • Rear view

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literature
  • Norbert Gierschner: diving boats , Interpress / VEB publishing house for traffic, Berlin 1980
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