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Wednesday 16 August 2017

Danish navy choose for budget reasons for Whitehead built submarine according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1910-1911 no. 7

An item reported that the Danish director of naval shipbuilding at Copenhagen, Denmark stated that just for budget reasons was chosen for a Whitehead-submarine instead for a second Fiat submarine. The first Danish submarine was the Dykkeren. The Whitehead submarine was preferred above the German Germania submarine while the first better suited to the Danish demands.(1)

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1. Launched by Fiat San Giorgio Shipyard, La Spezia, Italy on 18 July 1909, commissioned on 29 September 1909, sunk during an training on 9 October 1916, salvaged in 13 October 1916, decommissioned on 13 June 1917 and sold to be broken up.