German submarine U-555

Type VIIC submarine

Displacement: 757 long tons (769 t)
Length: 67.1 m (220.1 ft)
Beam: 6.2 m (20.3 ft)
Speed: 17.7 knots (32.8 km/h, 20.4 mph)
Main gun: 88 mm (3.5 in)

Service

Kriegsmarine as U-55530 January 1941 — March 19451,520 days of the war

Type VIIC submarine Particulars

Name: U-555
Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Ordered: 25 September 1939
Laid down: 2 January 1940
Launched: 7 December 1940
Commissioned: 30 January 1941
Decommissioned: March 1945
Fate: Surrendered on 3 May 1945, broken up in 1946 (1945)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 757 long tons (769 t)
Displacement, submerged: 857 long tons (871 t)
Length: 67.1 m (220.1 ft) OA
Beam: 6.2 m (20.3 ft)
Draught: 4.74 m (15.6 ft)
Speed: 17.7 knots (32.8 km/h, 20.4 mph)
Range: 8,500 nmi (15,742 km)
Main gun: 88 mm (3.5 in)

U-555 was a Type VIIC submarine built for the Kriegsmarine. Blohm & Voss, Hamburg laid her keel on 2 January 1940. Launched on 7 December 1940, she entered service on 30 January 1941.

Her class ran to 612 ships. The class followed the Type UB III, Vetehinen class and was succeeded by the Type XXI (Late-war replacement).

The boat displaced 757 long tons surfaced and 857 long tons submerged. She measured 67.1 m (220 ft) long with a beam of 6.2 m (20 ft). Her designed speed was 17.7 knots.

Her main battery was one 88 mm (3.5 in) guns.

She was in commission for 1,520 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in March 1945.

She was broken up for scrap on 3 May 1945.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 shafts
2 × diesel engines
2 × electric motors.
Power: 2800 - 3200 PS (diesels)
750 PS (electric)
Armament: 2 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (bow)
14 × G7e torpedoes or 26 TMA mines
1 × 8.8 cm deck gun (220 rounds)
1 x 2 cm C/30 AA gun

Sister ships

587 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from German submarine U-555 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.