German submarine U-1407
Service
- as U-140713 March 1945 — 5 May 194553 days of the war
- as HMS Meteorite25 September 1945 — September 1949
- Name
- U-1407
- Builder
- Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Ordered
- 4 January 1943
- Laid down
- 13 November 1943
- Launched
- February 1945
- Commissioned
- 13 March 1945
- Decommissioned
- September 1949
- Fate
- Broken up
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 415 long tons (422 t)
- Displacement, surfaced
- 312 long tons (317 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 337 long tons (342 t)
- Length
- 41.45 m (136 ft) OA
- Beam
- 4.5 m (14.8 ft)
- Draught
- 4.5 m (14.8 ft)
- Speed
- 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h, 9.8 mph)
- Range
- 2,970 nmi (5,500 km)
- Complement
- 12
U-1407 was a Type XVIIB submarine, operated by the Kriegsmarine. Blohm & Voss, Hamburg laid her keel on 13 November 1943. She entered service on 13 March 1945, having been launched in February 1945.
Eight ships of the class were built. The class followed the Type II (Conventional coastal submarine) and was succeeded by the Type XXIII (conventional coastal submarine).
The boat displaced 312 long tons surfaced and 337 long tons submerged. She measured 41.5 m (136 ft) long with a beam of 4.5 m (15 ft). Her designed speed was 8.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 12.
Her main battery was two 533 mm (21.0 in) guns.
She served with the Kriegsmarine as U-1407 until 5 May 1945. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Meteorite from 25 September 1945. She was in commission for 53 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in September 1949.
She was broken up for scrap.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 1 × Deutz SAA SM517 supercharged 8-cylinder diesel engine, 210 PS
- 1 × AEG Maschine AWT98 electric motor, 77 PS
- 1 × Walter gas turbine, 2500 PS
- 1 shaft
- Armament
- 2 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (bow)
- 4 × torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from German submarine U-1407 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: US goverment employee — uploaded from en:Image:Type-XVIIB-sub.jpg , original source was at http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_13/propulsion.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons