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UD2 seagoing submarine (1931/1941)

UD2 1941

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
UD2 (ex-O12)   186 De Schelde, Vlissingen, Netherlands 10.1928 8.11.1930 6.1931 // 1.1941 scuttled 3.5.1945

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

546 / 610

Length, m

60.4

Breadth, m

6.83

Draught, m

3.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Sulzer diesels / 2 Schmit electric motors

Power, h. p.

1800 / 620

Max speed, kts

16 / 8

Fuel, t

diesel oil 93

Endurance, nm(kts) 3500(10) / 26(8)

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 5 - 533 TT (4 bow, 1 stern, 10)

Electronic equipment hydrophone

Complement

34

Diving depth operational, m 80

Project history: Former Dutch O12, 14.5.1940 scuttled at Helder, later salvaged by Germans, repaired and 30.1.1943 commissioned by Kriegsmarine as UD2. 2 single 40mm Bofors guns in retracted mounts were removed and replaced by one single 20mm MG.

Modernizations: 1942-1943, presumably: + FuMO 30 radar, FuMB 1 Metox ECM suite

1943-1944, presumably: - FuMB 1 Metox ECM suite; + FuMB 3 Bali, FuMB 6 Palau ECM suites

Naval service: UD2 was stricken 6.7.1944.

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