Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Submarine class

Seehund

The class in numbers

  • 1 Planned
  • 285 Completed
  • 35 Lost

Design and service

Type
Submarine
Built
1944–1945
In commission
1944–1953
Builders
  • Germaniawerft, Kiel

Class specifications

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

As built
Length
12 m (39.4 ft)
Speed
7 knots (13 km/h, 8.1 mph)
Armament
  • 2 × G7e(TIIIc) torpedoes

Sources

  • Facts harvested from Seehund on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.