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Rendering of a Type XXIII submarine
Class overview
Builders
Deutsche Werft, Hamburg (48 boats)
Germaniawerft, Kiel (13 boats)
Operators
Kriegsmarine
German Navy
Volksmarine
Royal Navy
French Navy
Soviet Navy
Royal Norwegian Navy
Preceded by
Type II submarine (Conventional coastal submarine)
Type XVII submarine (AIP-powered coastal submarine)
1 × AEG GU4463-8 double-acting electric motor, 580 metric horsepower (427 kW; 572 shp)
1 × BBC CCR188 electric creeping motor, 35 metric horsepower (26 kW; 35 shp)
Speed
9.7 kn (18.0 km/h) surfaced
12.5 kn (23 km/h) submerged
Range
2,600 nmi (4,800 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h) surfaced
194 nmi (359 km) at 4 kn (7 km/h) submerged
Test depth
180 m (590 ft)
Complement
14–18
Armament
2 bow torpedo tubes
No reloads
German Type XXIII submarines were the first so-called elektroboote ("electric boats") to become operational. They were small coastal submarines designed to operate in the shallow waters of the North Sea, Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea, where larger Type XXI electric boats were at risk in World War II. They were so small they could carry only two torpedoes, which had to be loaded externally. As with their far larger sisters—the Type XXI—they were able to remain submerged almost all of the time and were faster than conventional U-boats, due to the improved streamlining of their shape, batteries with larger capacity and the snorkel, which allowed the diesel engines to be used while submerged. The Type XXI and XXIII U-boats revolutionized post-war submarine design. Nearly a thousand Type XXIII boats were projected towards the close of World War II, but most of these were either cancelled, scrapped incomplete, or only projected.[1]
^ abTrevor Lenton, German Submarines 2 (1965) in the Macdonald & Co series Navies of the Second World War.
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