Kriegsmarine — Submarine class
Type XVII submarine
The class in numbers
- 16 Planned
- 7 Completed
- 9 Cancelled
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- Built
- 1942 – 1945
- In commission
- 1943 – 1949
- Preceded by
- Type II (Conventional coastal submarine)
- Succeeded by
- Type XXIII (conventional coastal submarine)
- Builders
- Blohm + Voss, Hamburg
- Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 366 long tons (372 t)
- Displacement, surfaced
- 273 long tons (277 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 304 long tons (309 t)
- Length
- 39.05 m (128.1 ft) OA
- Speed
- 9 knots (16.7 km/h, 10.4 mph)
- Complement
- 201
- Armament
- 2 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (bow)
- 2 × reserve torpedoes stored on the torpedo room floor.
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German submarine U-1405 | 1944 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| German submarine U-1406 | 1945 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| German submarine U-1407 | 1945 | Scrapped | |
| German submarine U-792 | 1943 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| German submarine U-793 | 1944 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| German submarine U-794 | 1943 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| German submarine U-795 | 1944 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| HMS Meteorite | 1945 | Scrapped |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type XVII submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.