The
Type I U-boat was a
1936 attempt by the
Kriegsmarine to produce an oceangoing U-boat. Only two were produced (
U-25[?] and
U-26[?]), having been found to have poor stability, slow dive rate, poor maneuverability under water, and mechanical unreliability. Both examples had been sunk by
1940.
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