Kriegsmarine — Submarine class
Type XXI submarine
Type XXI
The class in numbers
- 1 Planned
- 118 Completed
- 785 Cancelled
- 1 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- Built
- 1943–1945
- In commission
- 1944–1982
- Preceded by
- Type VII
- Succeeded by
- Type XXVI (planned)
- Operators
- Postwar:
- Builders
- Blohm & Voss
- AG Weser
- Schichau-Werke
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,595 long tons (1,621 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,790 long tons (1,819 t)
- Length
- 76.7 m (251.6 ft)
- Speed
- 15.6 knots (28.9 km/h, 18 mph)
- Complement
- 57
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
- Armament
- 6 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
- 23 G7 torpedoes
- 2 × twin 2 cm C/30 anti-aircraft guns
Roster
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type XXI submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.