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SUBMARINES

"XX" type oceangoing transport submarines

U1601

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
U1601   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1602   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1603   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1604   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1605   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1606   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1607   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1608   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1609   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1610   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1611   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1612   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1613   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1614   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1615   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1701   Germaniawerft, Kiel 2/1944 --- --- cancelled early 1945
U1702   Germaniawerft, Kiel 3/1944 --- --- cancelled early 1945
U1703   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled early 1945
U1704   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1705   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1706   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1707   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1708   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1709   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1710   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1711   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1712   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1713   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1714   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944
U1715   Germaniawerft, Kiel 1944 --- --- cancelled 5/1944

  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

2708 / 2962

Length, m

77.1

Breadth, m

9.15

Draught, m

 6.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Germania diesels / 2 GL electric motors

Power, h. p.

3200 / 750

Max speed, kts

12.7 / 5.8

Fuel, t

diesel oil 471
Endurance, nm(kts) 18900(10) / 49(4)

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/83 SK C/30, 2 x 2 - 20/65 C/38
Sensors

FuMO 61 or FuMO 65 radar

Military load

750 t of liquid and 50 t of dry cargo

U1701 - 1703: 800 t of hydrogen peroxide

Complement

 58
Diving depth operational, m 100

Ship project history: Oceangoing transport submarines specially built for routes to East Asia, further development of XB series. U1601-1615 were ordered 3/3/1943 to Deutsche Werft, 14/12/1943 order was transferred to Germaniawerft but cancelled 27/5/1944 in favor of building of XXI series submarines. U1701-1715, ordered to Vegesack, had the same fate. Planned U1616-1700 and U1716-1800 were never ordered.

 

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