German submarine UD-3
Service
- as HNLMS O 252,193 days of the war
- as UD-38 June 1941 — 13 October 19441,223 days of the war
- Name
- HNLMS UD-3
- Builder
- Wilton-Fijenoord, Rotterdam
- Ordered
- 28 June 1938
- Laid down
- 10 April 1939
- Launched
- 1 May 1940
- Commissioned
- 8 June 1941
- Decommissioned
- 13 October 1944
- Fate
- Scuttled on 3 May 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 990 long tons (1,006 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,205 long tons (1,224 t)
- Length
- 77.7 m (254.9 ft)
- Beam
- 6.8 m (22.3 ft)
- Draught
- 3.95 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h, 22.4 mph)
- Range
- 10,000 nmi (18,520 km)
- Complement
- 39
HNLMS UD-3 was a O 21-class submarine in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy. Her keel was laid at Wilton-Fijenoord, Rotterdam on 10 April 1939. Launched on 1 May 1940, she entered service on 8 June 1941.
She was one of seven ships of her class. The class followed the O 19-class submarine and was succeeded by the Dolfijn-class submarine.
The boat displaced 990 long tons surfaced and 1,205 long tons submerged. She measured 77.7 m (255 ft) long with a beam of 6.8 m (22 ft). Her designed speed was 19.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 39.
Her main battery was four 533 mm (21 in) guns.
She served with the Royal Netherlands Navy as HNLMS O 25. She then passed to the Kriegsmarine, serving as UD-3 from 8 June 1941. She was in commission for 3,416 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 13 October 1944.
She was scuttled on 3 May 1945. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × 2500 PS diesel engines
- 2 × 500 PS electric motors
- Armament
- 4 × 21 in bow torpedo tubes
- 2 × 21 in stern torpedo tubes
- 2 × 21 in (1×2) external-traversing TT amidships
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from German submarine UD-3 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: N.V. Dok en Werf Maatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord — https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/foto-s/detail/379eb4da-ecad-b1b3-01cd-9ee492af2529/media/786183ba-5719-9d8e-a8d3-6a0ce7aa79f3 — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons