Brandtaucher (German for Fire-diver) was a submersible designed by the Bavarian inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer and built by Schweffel & Howaldt in...
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forced Bauer to change his designs in order to reduce costs. The finished Brandtaucher, built by August Howaldt of the later Howaldtswerke was 28 feet long...
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effect on shipping. The first submarine built in Germany, the three-man Brandtaucher, sank to the bottom of Kiel Harbor on 1 February 1851 during a test dive...
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of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1850, the company built an early submarine, Brandtaucher, designed by Wilhelm Bauer. It had been intended to build the boat in...
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renamed Wilhelm Bauer, after the designer of the first German U-boat, Brandtaucher, built in Kiel by August Howaldt in 1850. From May 1970 she again entered...
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Schleswig-Holstein, and the Brandtaucher, the first German incendiary diver or submarine designed by Wilhelm Bauer. The Brandtaucher is today an exhibit of...
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Pharaohs, now commonly known as the Amarna Letters. German submersible Brandtaucher, which sank on trial in the port of Kiel in 1851, is discovered, and...
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its construction of submarines. HDW built the first German submarine Brandtaucher in 1850, and is today a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, the...
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Dom Fernando II e Glória⚓ (1843) Bertha⚓ (1844) Great Britain⚓ (1845) Brandtaucher⚓ (1850) Radetzky⚓ (1851) Snow Squall⚓ (1851) Edwin Fox⚓ (1853) Constellation⚓...
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January 28 – Northwestern University is founded in Illinois. February 1 – Brandtaucher, the oldest surviving submersible craft, sinks during acceptance trials...
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