Kriegsmarine — Submarine class
Type IXD/42 submarine
Type IX
The class in numbers
- 290 Planned
- 194 Completed
- 90 Cancelled
- 2 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- 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 2 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-883 | 1945 | Sunk 1945 | |
| German submarine U-884 | 1944 | 1945 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type IXD/42 submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.