Kriegsmarine — Submarine class
Type XIV submarine
The class in numbers
- 24 Planned
- 10 Completed
- 14 Cancelled
- 10 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- Built
- 1940–1943
- In commission
- 1941–1944
- Builders
- Deutsche Werke (U-459 to U-464, U-487 to U-493)
- Germaniawerft (U-494 to U-500, U-2201-2204)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,661 long tons (1,688 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,901 long tons (1,932 t)
- Length
- 67.1 m (220.1 ft) OA
- Speed
- 14.9 knots (27.6 km/h, 17.1 mph)
- Complement
- 53
- Main gun
- 37 mm (1.5 in)
- Armament
- 2 × 3.7 cm SK C/30 anti-aircraft guns
- 1 × 2 cm C/30 AA gun
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German submarine U-459 | 1941 | Scuttled 1943 | |
| German submarine U-460 | 1941 | Sunk 1943 | |
| German submarine U-461 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 | |
| German submarine U-462 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 | |
| German submarine U-463 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 | |
| German submarine U-464 | 1942 | Sunk 1942 | |
| German submarine U-487 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 | |
| German submarine U-488 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 | |
| German submarine U-489 | 1943 | Sunk 1943 | |
| German submarine U-490 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type XIV submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.