Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Kriegsmarine — Submarine class

Type IXC submarine

Type IX

The class in numbers

  • 290 Planned
  • 194 Completed
  • 90 Cancelled
  • 2 Preserved

Design and service

Type
Submarine
Navies
Kriegsmarine 140
Imperial Japanese Navy 2
Built
1937–1945
Preceded by
Type I
Succeeded by
Type XXI
Subclasses
Type IXA, Type IXB, Type IXC, Type IXC/40, Type IXD1, Type IXD2, Type IXD/42

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

Type IXC
Speed
18.2 knots (33.7 km/h, 20.9 mph)
Complement
48
Main gun
105 mm (4.1 in)
Armament
  • 6 × torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
  • 22 × 53.3 cm torpedoes
  • Until 1943
  • 1 × 10.5 cm C/32
  • 1 × 3.7 cm C/30
  • 1 × 2 cm C/30
  • After 1943: Deck gun removed, various anti-aircraft weaponry

Roster

Holding 142 of the 194 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.

Vessel Pennant Commissioned Fate
German submarine U-1221 1943 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-1222 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-1223 1943 Scuttled 1945
German submarine U-1224 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-1225 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-1226 1943 1944
German submarine U-1227 1943 Scuttled 1945
German submarine U-1228 1943 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-1229 1944 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-1230 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-1231 1944 Scrapped 1968
German submarine U-1232 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-1233 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-1234 1944 Scuttled 1944
German submarine U-1235 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-125 (1940) 1940 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-126 (1940) 1940 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-127 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1941
German submarine U-128 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-129 (1941) 1941 1941 Scuttled 1944
German submarine U-130 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-131 (1941) 1941 1941 Scuttled 1941
German submarine U-153 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-154 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-155 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-156 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-157 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-158 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-159 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-160 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-161 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-162 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-163 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-164 (1941) 1941 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-165 (1941) 1941 1942 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-166 (1941) 1941 1942 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-167 (1942) 1942 1942 Scuttled 1943
German submarine U-168 1942 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-169 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-170 1943 Scuttled 1945
German submarine U-171 1941 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-172 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-173 1941 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-174 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-175 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-176 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-183 1942 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-184 1942 1942
German submarine U-185 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-186 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-187 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-188 1942 Scuttled 1944
German submarine U-189 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-190 1942 Target 1947
German submarine U-191 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-192 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-193 1942 1944
German submarine U-194 1943 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-501 1941 Sunk 1941
German submarine U-502 1941 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-503 1941 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-504 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-506 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-507 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-508 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-509 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-510 1941 Scrapped 1960
German submarine U-511 1941 Scuttled 1945
German submarine U-512 1941 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-513 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-514 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-515 1942 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-516 1942 Transferred 1945
German submarine U-517 1942 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-518 1942 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-519 1942 1943
German submarine U-520 1942 Sunk 1942
German submarine U-521 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-522 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-523 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-524 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-525 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-526 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-527 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-528 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-529 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-530 1942 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-531 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-532 1942 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-533 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-534 1942 Preserved 1945
German submarine U-535 1942 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-536 1943 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-537 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-538 1943 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-539 1943 Wrecked 1945
German submarine U-540 1943 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-541 1943 Transferred 1945
German submarine U-542 1943 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-543 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-544 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-545 1943 Scuttled 1944
German submarine U-546 1943 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-547 1943 Scuttled 1944
German submarine U-548 1943 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-549 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-550 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-66 (1940) 1940 1941 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-67 (1940) 1940 1941 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-68 (1940) 1940 1941 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-801 1943 Scuttled 1944
German submarine U-802 1943 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-803 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-804 1943 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-805 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-806 1944 Target 1945
German submarine U-841 1943 Scuttled 1943
German submarine U-842 1943 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-843 1943 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-844 1943 Sunk 1943
German submarine U-845 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-846 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-853 1943 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-854 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-855 1943 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-856 1943 Scuttled 1944
German submarine U-857 1943 1945
German submarine U-858 1943 Scuttled 1945
German submarine U-865 1943 1944
German submarine U-866 1943 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-867 1943 Scuttled 1944
German submarine U-868 1943 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-869 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-870 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-877 1944 Sunk 1944
German submarine U-878 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-879 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-880 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-881 1944 Sunk 1945
German submarine U-889 1944 Transferred
Japanese submarine Ro-500 1941 Scuttled 1945
Japanese submarine Ro-501 1943 Sunk 1944

Sources

  • Facts harvested from Type IXC submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.