Kriegsmarine — Submarine class
Type VIIB 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 24 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.
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type VIIB submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.