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Type XVII A (Wk 202)

 

Experimental boat. Designed by Professor Walter, Germania- and Blohm und Voss Werft.

2 were built: U 794 and U 795.

 

Description: Experimental boat
First launched: 1943
Complement, Off / Men 3 / 9
Displacement surf: 236 t
Displacement subm: 280 t (?)
Length: 34,0 m
Beam, max: 3,4 m
Depth: 4,5 m
Max speed surfaced: 9,0 kt
Max speed submerged: 26,0 kt
Radius surfaced: 1140 sm at 9 kt
Radius submerged: 80 sm at 26 kt
Max diving depth: ?
Diving time, stationary: ?
Diving time, alarm moving: ?
Oil fuel carried: 40 t Perhydrol or Aurol.
Torpedo tubes, bow / stern: 2 / 0
Nr of torpedoes / mines: 4 / 0
Guns fitted: x
   

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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