Kriegsmarine — Submarine class
Type X submarine
The class in numbers
- 8 Completed
- 6 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- Built
- 1939–1944
- In commission
- 1941–1945
- 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
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,735 long tons (1,763 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,143 long tons (2,177 t)
- Length
- 89.8 m (294.6 ft) OA
- Speed
- 17 knots (31.5 km/h, 19.6 mph)
- Complement
- 52
- Main gun
- 105 mm (4.1 in)
- Armament
- 2 × 53.3 cm stern torpedo tubes
- 11 × torpedoes
- 66 × SMA mines
- 1 × 10.5 cm
- 1 x 3.7 cm SK C/30
- 1 x 2 cm C/30
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German submarine U-116 (1941) | 1941 | 1941 | 1942 |
| German submarine U-117 (1941) | 1941 | 1941 | Sunk 1943 |
| German submarine U-118 (1941) | 1941 | 1941 | Sunk 1943 |
| German submarine U-119 (1942) | 1942 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 |
| German submarine U-219 | 1942 | Sunk 1946 | |
| German submarine U-220 | 1943 | Sunk 1943 | |
| German submarine U-233 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 | |
| German submarine U-234 | 1944 | Sunk 1947 | |
| Japanese submarine I-505 | 1942 | Sunk 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type X submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.