&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Neger_human_torpedo.jpg) A Neger with its operator being launched, c. 1944–45
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Neger |
| Operators |  Kriegsmarine |
| In service | 1943–1945 |
| In commission | 1943 |
| Active | c. 200 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 2.7 tonnes (2.7 long tons) |
| Length | 7.60 m (24 ft 11 in) o/a |
| Beam | 0.533 m (21 in) |
| Installed power | 12 metric horsepower (8.8 kW; 12 shp) |
| Propulsion | AEG-AV 76 Eto |
| Speed | 3.2–4.2 knots (5.9–7.8 km/h; 3.7–4.8 mph) surfaced |
| Range | 48 nautical miles (89 km) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) surfaced |
| Complement | 1 |
| Armament | 1 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo |
The Neger (German for Negro) was a torpedo-carrying craft generally described as a human torpedo[1] which could not submerge, but was difficult to see during night operations. The vessel was used by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine between 1943 and 1945. The name comes from its constructor, Richard Mohr, whose surname in German also means "Moor" or "Negro".[2]
- ^ Brown 1990, p. 115.
- ^ Rössler, Eberhard (1975). Geschichte des deutschen Ubootbaus (in German). Munich: J. F. Lehmann Verlag. p. 404. ISBN 3-469-00507-9.