Submarine class
German submarine U-395
Type VII
The class in numbers
- 1,452 Planned
- 709 Completed
- 1 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- In commission
- 1936 – 1970
- Preceded by
- Type UB III, Vetehinen class
- Succeeded by
- Type XXI (Late-war replacement)
- Builders
- Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Danziger Werft, Danzig
- Deutsche Werke, Kiel
- Deschimag A.G. Weser, Hamburg
- Flender Werke, Lübeck
- Flensburger Schiffahrt-Gesellschaft
- Germaniawerft, Kiel
- Howaldtswerke, Kiel
- Kriegsmarinewerft, Wilhelmshaven
- Neptun Werft, Rostock
- Nordseewerke, Emden
- Schichau-Werke, Danzig
- Stettiner Oderwerke, Stettin
- Stettiner Vulcan, Stettin
- Stülken & Sohn, Hamburg
- Vegesacker Werft, Kiel
- Subclasses
- Built, Type VIIA, Type VIIB, Type VIIC, Type VIIC/41, Type VIID, Type VIIF, Not built, Type VIIC/42, Type VIIC/43, Type VIIE
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Type VIIC
- Displacement, surfaced
- 757 long tons (769 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 857 long tons (871 t)
- Length
- 67.2 m (220.5 ft) OA
- Speed
- 17.7 knots (32.8 km/h, 20.4 mph)
- Complement
- 44
- Main gun
- 88 mm (3.5 in)
- Armament
- 5 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 1 stern)
- 14 × torpedoes or 26 TMA or 39 TMB mines
- Until 1943
- 1 × 8.8 cm SK C/35
- 1 × 2 cm FlaK 30
- After 1943: Deck gun removed, various anti-aircraft weaponry
Sources
- Facts harvested from German submarine U-395 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.