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Here is one in Venice:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g187870-d196475-Naval_History_Museum_Museo_Storico_Navale_Arsenale-Venice_Veneto.html
3-d photo. Two seamen (diversants? frogs? seals?) sit like on a tandem
bicycle;
and this is not really a suicide mission: this kind of torpedo, is more
a submarine then a torpedo. They attach the explosive charges to a ship
bottom in harbor, and then try to escape or simply surrender.
They sank a British battleship in this way in Alexandria, and both
survived, if I remember correctly.

Alex.

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Frank Reed wrote:

>
> Alex, I, too, have seen that Kaiten which is now at Pearl Harbor. But it's 
been forty years (more years since I last saw it than the age of the 
submarine at that time!). Here's a photo of it shortly before it was shipped 
to Hawaii:
> http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h71000/h71520.jpg
> Back before Mystic Seaport had become a museum with a proper focus, they 
collected all sorts of strange things, and the Kaiten was a sort of "gate 
guard" out by the parking lot.
>
> For John, the NJNM's Seehund is not the only one surviving, and in fact 
there's one not far away in Massachusetts. Also note that a proper 
translation of "seehund" is "seal". Yes, it's derived way back from "sea dog" 
since seals do very much resemble dogs, but it's like the English word 
"catfish". :)
>
> -FER
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