U-boat type IXD-2

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Old Crow
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U-boat type IXD-2

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Post by Old Crow » 03 Feb 2003, 18:44

Dear friends,

Hit me with everything you have about the IXD-2, please :D .
Comparisons with other u-boats, technical data, operational records, etc. ect.

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U-Boat type IXd2

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Post by jacobite1 » 04 Feb 2003, 12:33

Displacement variously given as 1,612 surfaced, 1,804 submerged and 1,365 Tons.
Range 31,500 miles at 10 knots, 23,700 at 12 knots.
Surface speed 19.2 knots
Under-water speed 6.9 knots
My source is
Admiral Karl Doenitz Memoirs, Ten Years and Twenty Days
It is a Cassel Military Paperback.
which my Wife got me for Christmas
A good read, even if he comes across as a "legend-in-his-own-lunchtime".... just my opinion....

Dave Moffitt


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