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large mine-layer was developed from type I A and plans for type X A. It was quite easy to
identify as it had a raised section on front deck. The
X B could carry over sixty mines! Eighteen in six bow shafts and the rest in side shafts.
Besides laying mines, this type also were used as supply vessel.
8 were built: U 116 - U 119, U 219 - U 220 and U 233 - U 234.
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| Description: |
Long distance / Ocean
going / Mine Layer / Supply boat. |
| First launched: |
1941 |
| Complement, Off / Men |
5 / 47 incl Medical
Officer |
| Displacement surf: |
1763 t |
| Displacement subm: |
2710 t |
| Length: |
89,8 m |
| Beam, max: |
9,2 m |
| Depth: |
4,7 m |
| Max speed surfaced: |
17,0 kt |
| Max speed submerged: |
7,0 kt |
| Radius surfaced: |
6750 sm at 16 kt
18450 sm at 10 kt |
| Radius submerged: |
-95 sm at 4 kt |
| Max diving depth: |
200 m |
| Diving time,
stationary: |
? |
| Diving time, alarm
moving: |
-40 sec |
| Oil fuel carried: |
368 t |
| Torpedo tubes, bow /
stern: |
0 / 2 |
| Nr of torpedoes /
mines: |
15 / 22 plus 66 in
mine shafts |
| Guns fitted: |
1. 37 mm AA with 2500
rds,
1. 20 mm AA with 4000 rds,
1. 105 mm deck gun with 200 rds. |
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Off = Officers, surf = surfaced, subm = submerged,
max = maximum, Nr = number, t = tons, m = metres, mm = millimetres,
kt = knots, sm = sea miles, sec = seconds, AA = Anti Aircraft, rds = rounds
+ = more than, - = less than, x = No/none, ? = unknown
Please note that some figures are to be considered approximate.
Main sourse for The Boats Section is the excellent book "U-boats
under the Swastika" by J.P. Mallman Showell, ISBN: 0 7110 0379 3. |
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