Kriegsmarine — Submarine class
Type XXIII submarine
The class in numbers
- 980 Planned
- 61 Completed
- 7 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Kriegsmarine
- Built
- 1944–1945
- In commission
- 1944–1968
- Preceded by
- Type II submarine (Conventional coastal submarine)
- Succeeded by
- Type 201 coastal submarine
- Builders
- Deutsche Werft, Hamburg (48 boats)
- Germaniawerft, Kiel (13 boats)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 230 long tons (234 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 254 long tons (258 t)
- Length
- 34.68 m (113.8 ft)
- Speed
- 9.7 knots (18 km/h, 11.2 mph)
- Complement
- 14
- Armament
- 2 bow torpedo tubes
- No reloads
Roster
Sources
- Facts harvested from Type XXIII submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.