Description

These boats, designed in 1933-1934, were the first of a new generation of german attack u-boats known, as type vii, they were popular with their crews and very agile on the surface. They also had a much more powerful striking power than the smaller type iis. They had 5 torpedo tubes (4 at the bow) and would carry 11 torpedoes onboard or 22 tma (=33 tmb) mines. They also had the effective 88mm fast-firing deck gun with about 160 rounds of ammunition.

type viib was an improvement on this design with substantially increased range.

all but two (u-29 and u-30, both scuttled in kupferm. Hlen bay on may 4, 1945) type viia u-boats were sunk during world war two.