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Brandtaucher
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Key facts
- Ship.display_title
- ital
- Ship/image.image
- Bundeswehrmuseum Dresden 7bis.jpg
- Ship/image.image_caption
- Brandtaucher on display at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum, Dresden
- Ship/career.country
- Germany
- Ship/career.flag
- 60px
- Ship/career.name
- Brandtaucher
- Ship/career.builder
- Schweffel & Howaldt, Kiel
- Ship/career.launched
- 1850
- Ship/career.fate
- Sank, 1 February 1851 Raised, 5 July 1887
- Ship/career.status
- Museum ship
- Ship/characteristics.type
- Submarine
- Ship/characteristics.propulsion
- Cranked propeller
Article
5 sectionsContents
- History
- See also
- Citations
- References
- Further reading
thumb|Internal mechanism of the Brandtaucher submarine in Dresden thumb|The Brandtaucher submarine cutaway model in Dresden, Germany thumb|Sketch of the Brandtaucher (from an 1896 book)
Brandtaucher (German for Fire-diver) was a submersible designed by the Bavarian inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer and built by Schweffel & Howaldt in Kiel for Schleswig-Holstein's Flotilla (part of the Reichsflotte) in 1850. The Brandtaucher is the oldest known surviving submarine in the world.