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An
improved version of VII C with better armoured conning tower, stronger pressure hull
(which allowed dives to some 250 m) and several other, minor modifications.
The changes were so small that therewas no major mechanical diffrence between the
VII C and the VII C / 41.The museum ship U 995
in Laboe, Kiel, Germany is a type
VII C / 41.
Number of boats built included with figure for type VII C.
Facts below, as for type VII C.
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| Description: |
Sea/Ocean going /
Conventional |
| First launched: |
? |
| Complement, Off / Men |
Totally 44 to 56 |
| Displacement surf: |
circa 769 t |
| Displacement subm: |
circa 1070 t |
| Length: |
66,5 m |
| Beam, max: |
6,2 m |
| Depth: |
4,7 m |
| Max speed surfaced: |
+17,0 kt |
| Max speed submerged: |
7,6 kt |
| Radius surfaced: |
3250 sm at 17 kt
8500 sm at 10 kt |
| Radius submerged: |
80 sm at 4 kt |
| Max diving depth: |
250 m (many boats went
deeper) |
| Diving time,
stationary: |
50 sec (to come to 10
m) |
| Diving time, alarm
moving: |
30 sec |
| Oil fuel carried: |
114 t |
| Torpedo tubes, bow /
stern: |
4 / 1 (some boats only
had 2 / 1) |
| Nr of torpedoes /
mines: |
14 / 39 |
| Guns fitted: |
1. 20 mm AA with 4380
rds
1. 88 mm deck gun with 250 rds
This type of weaponry later modified:
Most deck guns were removed during or after 1943 and AA strengthened. |
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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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