Kriegsmarine — Submarine class
Type IXD 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 33 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.
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type IXD submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.