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Album: Germany 2010
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Date: 2010-04-15 15:53:41
Tags: Bremerhaven, Germany, Submarines, Type XXI, U 2540

Diesel engine room

Of the machine rooms of the boat, only the back portion of the electric engine room is in its original condition. The Diesel engine room used to house two 6 cylinder MAN diesels, which through the use of a Vulkan clutch and gear box each ran one of the both propellers.

With the conversion of the boat, this diesel-electric machine was put in:
2 12 cylinder MB 820 diesel engines with an output of 600 hp each at 1400 rpm
Make Daimler Benz
and
2 BBC generators with an output of 405 kW
Make BrownBoverie Cie.

This means that at the Federal Navy, the boat ran only using the electic engines. While diving at shallow depths, the diesel engine could be supplied with air using the so-called Snorkel, which, like the head of the periscope, reached above water.