The panel recalls encountering the preserved boat in Tallinn after initially expecting a Soviet submarine. Its British-built design is described as a modified relative of the U class with minelaying capability and as the only surviving pre-1940 British-built submarine. Visitors can enter the hull and walk around and beneath it inside the museum's converted seaplane hangar. The moment shows how museum ships let researchers test assumptions formed from plans and photographs against the dimensions, machinery, and internal arrangements of an actual vessel.
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What Tallinn's preserved British-built submarine reveals
A preserved Estonian minelaying submarine in Tallinn provides rare physical access to a British-built pre-1940 design related to the U class.