Hi All

I have found this reference website regarding the very obscure Welfreighter Midget Submarine
It will will provide some interesting read, and if it had some plans... a good scratchbuilt theme

Does anyone have any further info regarding this midget Sub?

Skipper

Hi Rui....
Don't know if this is the same......
but here's a British midget.
http://www.accurate-armour.com/ShowProduct.cfm?CFID=2982747&CFTOKEN=56925159&manufacturer=0&category=13&subcategory=28&product=134

Hi Dave (Long time no See!!)

No, that's the X-Craft, and after that there where two other variants XT-Craft and the XE-Craft

This one is completely different - it looks like a mix between a truck, a boat and a midget sub! Almost like the Platypus :-)

Images (Pics and Drawings)

That one I have in my house





This is the available images, right now!

But thanks for the interest

Skipper

PS: How is your leg going? Are you 100%? I hope so

The boat you linked to Dave is the famous X craft that tried to sink the Tirpitz. The one Rui mentions, which I've never heard of before, looks to have an actual conning tower. Names for British equipment are always a little strange. I wonder how they came up with "Welfreighter?" A guy name Well designed it?

and in Operation Gambit which consisted in marking of landing areas at Normandy Beaches, D-Day

Yes this Welfreighter is really strange! I have only found about it 5 or 6 years ago, and at that time only one picture of it (a bad one) was available in the net!

Talking about strange concepts (in this area) there's always Welman Craft :-)

Skipper

That's an interesting looking ehhhhh thing...... :-) :-) :-)

Doing well, leg is healing, walking, working, and I certainly do look loverly in my shorts and support stocking......
:-) :-) :-)

The wel part of welfreighter meant that it was built in Welwyn.
According to Underwater Warriors by Paul Kemp. The welfreighter was designed to carry 4 men and 2 tons of supplies.
The original intention was to use these craft to supply Albanian partisans in the Adriatic. However before they could be deployed the war in Europe ended.
Instead they 8 were sent to the Far East to operate in the Malay peninsula. But the war ended here too before they could be deployed.
After the war the remaining craft were either abandoned or broken up. One survivesat the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport.