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Friday, 19 April 2013
Austria building submarine salvage ship annex mother ship according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1909-1910 no. 8
An item reported that at Fiume [nowadays in Croatia] a submarine salvage ship annex mother ship for submarines and torpedo boats would be built. The dimensions were 64,20 x 10 metres and a displacement of around 1.500 ton. The 2 engines and 2 water pipe boilers with a boiler for heating supplied 2.500 hp allowing a speed of 15 miles. Her coal bunker capacity was 200 ton. For her salvaging task would she be fitted out with 2 centrifugal pumps with a capacity of 1.900 cubic metres each hour and 2 pumps of 1.100 cubic metres each hour, 2 movable pumps with steam boiler of 550 cubic metres, 2 movable pumps with explosion engine of 1.350 cubic metres and 2 movable electric centrifugal pumps of 200 cubic metres. Further more were 2x15 ton steam winches, air pumps, air accumulators on board, stores needed for the submarines and torpedo boats, divers equipment, cranes and a repair shop.