Submarine class
U-class submarine
Group three
The class in numbers
- 34 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 540 long tons (549 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 730 long tons (742 t)
- Length
- 58.22 m (191 ft)
- Speed
- 11.3 knots (20.8 km/h, 12.9 mph)
- Complement
- 27
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes - 4 bow internal, 2 bow external (first group only) 8–10 torpedoes
- 1 × 3 in gun
Fit 2
- Displacement, submerged
- 630 long tons (640 t)
- Length
- 58.22 m (191 ft)
- Speed
- 11.3 knots (20.8 km/h, 12.9 mph)
- Complement
- 36
- Armament
- bow 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (8 × torpedoes)
- (later, 6 mines)
- 1 × QF 12-pounder
- 2, later 3 × .303-calibre machine-guns
Fit 3
- Displacement, surfaced
- 662 long tons (673 t)
- Length
- 62.48 m (205 ft)
- Speed
- 12.8 knots (23.6 km/h, 14.7 mph)
- Complement
- 37
- Armament
- bow 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (8 × torpedoes)
- (later, 6 mines)
- 1 × QF 12-pounder
- 3 × machine-guns)
Sources
- Facts harvested from U-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.