![]() ![]() It is currently on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. During the First World War the SM U-1 was used for training and was retired in 1919. At the start of World War I, Germany had 48 submarines of 13 classes in service or under construction. A diesel engine was not installed in a German navy boat until the U-19 class of 1912–13. ![]() The fifty percent larger SM U-2 had two torpedo tubes. It had a double hull, was powered by a Körting kerosene engine and was armed with a single torpedo tube. It was commissioned by the Imperial German Navy on 14 December 1906. The SM U-1 was a completely redesigned Karp-class submarine and only one was built. In 1903, Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel completed Germany's first fully functional submarine, Forelle which was sold to Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in April 1904. This was followed in 1890 by W1 and W2, built to a Nordenfelt design. Brandtaucher was later rediscovered during dredging operations in 1887, and subsequently raised sixteen years later and placed in a museum in Germany, where it remains today. The vessel was designed in 1850 by the inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer and built by Schweffel & Howaldt in Kiel for the Imperial German Navy. The first submarine built in Germany was the three-man submarine Brandtaucher, which sank to the bottom of Kiel harbor during its first test dive. ![]()
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