Schnorchel

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 668 words | Copyright

Schnorchel (German slang for nose), a combined air-intake and diesel gas-outlet that enabled submarines to remain submerged for indefinite periods. The Americans abbreviated it to ‘snorkel’, the British to ‘snork’. It was a pre-war Dutch device which had been offered to, and rejected by, the Admiralty in 1940. Dutch submarines fitted with it were captured by the Germans, but the German Navy was slow to develop it, and it was not operational until early 1944, too late to affect the outcome in the battle of the Atlantic. It was, nevertheless, a dangerous innovation as it was almost impossible to detect by radar. See also submarines.

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