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Notes: Type IX.B was an improved version of Type IX.A with an increased range of 1500 nautical miles and slightly heavier. The design was improved again in their successors of Type IX.C from 1939 onwards. Class Overview
Name: Type IX.B–Class U-boat
Builders: Hergenröther Shipyard
Operators: Auf Tod-Pack (1937 to Present)
Cost: 4,650,000 A/M Per-Ship (1937)
Planned: 20
Canceled: 6
Built: 14
Submarines in Class:
- U64 to U65 (In-service)
- U103 to U111 (In-service)
- U122 to U124 (In-service)
Successor: Type IX.C-Class
General Characteristics
Type: U-boat
Displacement:
- Surfaced: 1,051 t (1,034 long tons)
- Submerged: 1,178 t (1,159 long tons)
- Overall: 76.50 m (251 ft 0 in)
- Pressure Hull: 58.75 m (192 ft 9 in)
- Overall: 6.76 m (22 ft 2 in)
- Pressure Hull: 4.40 m (14 ft 5 in)
Draft: 4.70 m (15 ft 5 in)
Power:
- Surfaced: 4,400 kW
- Submerged: 1,000 kW
- 2 × MANN M 9 V 40/46 supercharged 9-cylinder diesel engines, 4,400 PS (4,300 shp; 3,200 kW)
- 2 × SSW 1 GU 345/34 double-acting electric motors , 1,000 PS (990 shp; 740 kW)
- Surfaced: 18.2 Knots (33.7 km/h; 20.9 mph)
- Submerged: 7.3 Knots (13.5 km/h; 8.4 mph)
- Surfaced: 12,000 nmi (22,000 km; 14,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
- Submerged: 64 nmi (119 km; 74 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph)
- Test: 230 m (750 ft)
Armament:
- 1 × (Single) 10.5 cm SK C/32, Naval Gun; with 180 rounds
- 1 × (Single) 2 cm FlaK 30, AA Gun
- 1 × (Twin) 2 cm FlaK 30, AA Gun
- Torpedoes:
- Maximum Torpedos: 22
- Maximum Mines: 0
- Torpedo Tubes:
- Bow: 4
- Stern: 2
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