Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Submarine class

German submarine UIT-23

The class in numbers

  • 4 Completed
  • 4 Lost

Design and service

Type
Submarine
Built
1939–1940
In commission
1939–1944
Builders
  • Tosi Taranto

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, surfaced
1,030 long tons (1,047 t)
Displacement, submerged
1,484 long tons (1,508 t)
Length
77.11 m (253 ft)
Speed
18 knots (33.3 km/h, 20.7 mph)
Complement
50
Main gun
100 mm (3.9 in)
Armament
  • 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • 2 × 100 mm / 47 caliber guns
  • 4 × 13.2 mm machine guns

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