Gimnote or Gymnote
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:21 pm
GYMNOTE 1886
Gustav Zede backed by Admiral Aube laid down the Gymnote (translation "electric eel") in April 1887. She displaced 31 tons, 'was sixty feet long and six feet in diameter. She had a single 14 inch torpedo
tube in the bow and was powered by a battery of 564 small accumulators. She could do s ix and a half knots surfaced and six knots submerged. The accumulator batteries had to be recharged by a generator ashore or from another ship. The boat also had water tanks for ballast which were emptied by compressed a i r . Vertical control proved difficult but Gymnot remained in use as a test bed into the 1900's.
By R. L. Trace Log Book 1998.
Cambodia 1994 SG1397
Gustav Zede backed by Admiral Aube laid down the Gymnote (translation "electric eel") in April 1887. She displaced 31 tons, 'was sixty feet long and six feet in diameter. She had a single 14 inch torpedo
tube in the bow and was powered by a battery of 564 small accumulators. She could do s ix and a half knots surfaced and six knots submerged. The accumulator batteries had to be recharged by a generator ashore or from another ship. The boat also had water tanks for ballast which were emptied by compressed a i r . Vertical control proved difficult but Gymnot remained in use as a test bed into the 1900's.
By R. L. Trace Log Book 1998.
Cambodia 1994 SG1397