Kriegsmarine — Submarine class
Type VII submarine
Type VII
The class in numbers
- 1,452 Planned
- 709 Completed
- 1 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- 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
Roster
Holding 21 of the 709 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German submarine U-1059 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 | |
| German submarine U-1060 | 1943 | Wrecked 1944 | |
| German submarine U-1061 | 1943 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| German submarine U-1062 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 | |
| German submarine U-213 | 1941 | Sunk 1942 | |
| German submarine U-214 | 1941 | Sunk 1944 | |
| German submarine U-215 | 1941 | Sunk 1942 | |
| German submarine U-216 | 1941 | Sunk 1942 | |
| German submarine U-217 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 | |
| German submarine U-218 | 1942 | Scuttled 1945 | |
| German submarine U-27 (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Sunk 1939 |
| German submarine U-28 (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Disposed 1944 |
| German submarine U-29 (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Scuttled 1945 |
| German submarine U-30 (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Scuttled 1945 |
| German submarine U-31 (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Sunk 1940 |
| German submarine U-32 (1937) | 1937 | 1937 | Sunk 1940 |
| German submarine U-33 (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Sunk 1940 |
| German submarine U-34 (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Sunk 1943 |
| German submarine U-35 (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Scuttled 1939 |
| German submarine U-36 (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Sunk 1939 |
| German submarine U-380 | 1941 | Sunk 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type VII submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.