10 Deepest Diving Submarines of WWII
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Video description: During World war 2, Submarines are very valuable attack vehicles. They were basically surface ships that could sail underwater for a brief time. Apart from armament and other advanced features let’s see which submarine class can dive deep enough into the sea. This video presents the top 10 deepest diving submarines of WW2 by class. This list is probably based on test depth which is the maximum depth at which a submarine is permitted to operate under normal peacetime circumstances.
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Most of german subs would go even deeper, but oceans were to shallow.
@Abhinab Das They were stopped by the ocean floor.
@Abhinab Das he means that they were all sunk by the enemy.
Lol. No, the fast fireing Torpedo mechanism withstands less pressure. 220m in practice.
Completely false lmao
At what points on the planet were the oceans too shallow?
U 995 is actually the last existing VII-C boat of the world. If you ever happen to be in Laboe near Kiel, pay it a visit!
i was ther 4 days ago. its crazy feeling inside.
I'd love to see her! I have visited the USS Pampanito, docked along Fishermans Wharf in SF a number of times. I'm always thrilled when I visit her.
I agree!
I visited in 2013, bought 2 U-Boot prints which I had framed for my lounge. Of course I am single.😅
The XXI could technically dive deeper than the VII, but was never practiced because of war end.
The Type XXI submarines were so poorly built that in reality they could not even reach the depth of the Type VII boats.
Your values are theoretical values that have never been achieved in reality.
@@ULTRA_2112 Of course it's theroretical, but the same shipyards which built the VII later built the XXI and these are there given values:
VII calculated crush depth: 250-295 m
XXI calculated crush depth: 330 m
They were right with their calculations with the VII, why should they have been wrong with their calculations for the XXI?
Of course the 330m were never reached in reality, because there was never a need to do so and it was never tried, as the war was over and it's very risky.
@@andyz.5431
The German Reich lost the war at the time the Type XXI submarines were built.
There were significant problems with the material and with the production.
The quality of the Type XXI submarines can no longer be compared with the Type VII or IX submarines from 1940, 1941 or 1942.
So post-war assessments by the US Navy and British Royal Navy also found that the completed submarines had poor structural integrity due to the manufacturing problems.
This rendered the submarines highly vulnerable to depth charges, and gave them a lesser maximum diving depth than earlier U-boat designs.
Here the German Text:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Boot-Klasse_XXI#Tauchtiefe
@@ULTRA_2112 Anyway from construction side and under normal material and production conditions the XXI was able to dive deeper than 300m.
Your link says that even under worse conditions the test conducted by the Germaniawerft, the crash dive depth were just 10% less than the initially calculated one.
The tests of americans and brits were conducted with unmaintained and rusted XXI's months after the war and are therefore misleading.
@@andyz.5431
"Anyway from construction side and under normal material and production conditions the XXI was able to dive deeper than 300m."
Yes, but only once!
"The tests of americans and brits were conducted with unmaintained and rusted XXI's months after the war and are therefore misleading."
This is nonsense, U-2513 was extensively overhauled at the naval yard in Charlston, South Carolina prior to testing.
This shipyard had considerably better opportunities in 1946 than any of the Kriegsmarine shipyards in 1944 / 1945.
I have the original report from Clay Blair, formerly USS Guardfish, about the test series.
How implausible your claim about the poor condition of U-2513 during the test period is, shows that the incumbent US President Harrry S. Truman was on U-2513 on November 21, 1946 and the boat dived to 130m (440 feet) on this voyage to demonstrate the use of the snorkel system to Truman.
The conclusion of the US Navy about the test series remains.
The boats of the XXI type have been assembled with poor quality materials and by unskilled workers.
In reality, the maximum achievable diving depth is lower with these boats than with type VII boats.
From mid-1944 Hitler's "Third Reich" was done.
Defeats on all fronts, day and night air raids on the Reich.
There was nothing left, no material, no fuel, no hope.
Only the feeble-minded perseverance slogans of the party and the confused talk of the Führer about the "Endsieg".
The Luftwaffe no longer existed, the Kriegsmarine was destroyed, the Type VII boats were sunk by the Allies before they could ever see an enemy convoy.
The Wehrmacht had no vehicles, no ammunition and no fuel,
If they could move at all, then at night.
During the day nothing was possible anymore due to the air superiority of the Allies.
Why do you think the Nazis lost the war so mercilessly?
The trick is not how deep a submarine can go, it true test is coming up from that depth. Every submarine can go to the bottom.
Going down is easy. Even Russian ships do that lately.
The Ukrainians have definitely helped them prove that!!! 🤠👍🇺🇦
Your "trick", Bill, reminds me an old Skydiver joke about parachute failure:
the free-falling isn't the problem, it's only the final 6 feet that you have to worry about.
(How can they think up this stuff...)
@@davidstevenson9517: And old german joke. A man jumps out of a plane with a parachute. The parachute fails, the reserve parachute also fails. The man thinks: I get angry, when they have forgotten the promised bycicle on ground!
You are right, been there a couple of years ago, its a fantastic Submarine
Allies: “How are you able to dive so deep?”
U-Boats: “Deutsch Qualität”
Deutsche Qualität
Still sunk ...
Of the 863 German submarines that were used, 784 were sunk.
Of the 40,000 men on board these submarines, over 30,000 died while on duty ....
@@ULTRA_2112 And now also tell how many ships they destroyed. Cause without that, these numbers mean nothing.
@@Micha-qv5uf Viele (Many). And I am shure you would't have liked it to be on one of those ships at that time. But this video was about how deep U Boats could dive.
@@Micha-qv5uf
These numbers show everything.
You can only die quickly in a German submarine, and that since 1943 .....
The type VII and IX submarines were obsolete scrap from mid-1943, death traps for the crews.
Hundreds of these boats were sunk by the Allied forces.
The OKM (Oberkommando der Marine / High Command of the Navy) and the BdU (Befehlshaber der U-Boote / Commander of the Submarines) were fully aware of this fact, and yet the crews were sent to certain death.
By the way, completely pointless.
Just for information: The losses of all transatlantic convoys of the Allies from 1942 to 1945 were less than 1% .....
a german type viic/42 went well beyond crush depth off gibraltar when being depth charged by three destroyers. she apparently went to about 1200 feet while under attack and still survived to get back to brest.
Das boot
yes eduard theres a similar scene in das boot where the u96 dives out of control after being attacked and hits the bottom at 280-300 meters- about a 1000feet! there are quite a few accounts of type viics going beyond their collapse depth and still surviving. german engineering for you. theres also a mention of how tough these boats are in the film U571.
@@johnblaber3461 this is because in WWII we german engineers used the security number 7, which means the resistance factor was not 2-3 in heavy metals but fracking 7!!! This is also why the tanks could withstand attacks on their front armor. They were very precisely built but this killed us in Russia as oil got hard and sticky and engines got problems, they survived the desert but the extreme cold. only if you leave the engines running but when you are cut off from supplies... XD The Russians deserved this victory as Nazi-Germany was a sick empire! So good that we lost. We should have one the first world war, then this shit would have never happened! Mehh but then maybe today we would have to feel bad about the German common wealth :P things are fine as they are.....
@@ragnar999tobi Also U boats used a circular pressure hull, stronger than the more oblong shape US subs used.
@@ragnar999tobi Apparently, losing a ww is not such a bad thing. Germany and Japan are both great economic superpowers now
Some dubious figures here. It is very easy to confuse test depth with max safe operating depth and crush depth.
I served on the USS Catfish SS339. it was back in the late 50's and the early 60's. She was a Balao class with the guppy 2 refit. Her test depth was 412 feet. I would have been very excited if she had ever gone much deeper. I always worried after an overhaul about the fact that the welders who fixed the cracks in the boats hull for shipyards that had the lowest bid on the entire overhaul.
Just as the Mercury astronauts said: Do you realize that we are sitting on tons of high explosives assembled by the lowest bidder?
The Russians built a titanium submarine but it didn’t work, after diving it was found to have cracks, presumably micro cracks found with ultrasound or something similar. Steel can be pushed in and spring back out but although stronger titanium may not be so spring like. The Americans had a submarine which dived below maximum depth under a Japanese depth charge attack and survived but on return to port it was decommissioned as it was found to be 15 inches shorter than when it left.
My dad made 5 war patrols in the Pacific in WWII in a diesel sub, SS184 Skipjack. He had some crazy stories. We used to go to the harbor in Baltimore, they had one of the sister subs of another he served on. The guides would just give up while Dad took over the tour lol I did have to reign him in on some of the stories tho lol
damm
We used to have a US sub at Navy Pier in Chicago, but the restoration was very rough, and the tour guides knew nothing other than their memorized script. I happened to be on a tour with a few vets who got fed up with the pathetic guides and commandeered the tour. Best sub tour I ever got.
@@ghost307 Dad occasionally forgot there were children on the tour and he lacked a filter lol But even the tour guides enjoyed his history lesson lol
Based on this list, seems like the Geman submarine force was in BEAST mode during the entire war.
Not just the best subs, but the best fighter aircraft & tanks right to the very end of the war. They had actually built 2 new prototype subs that were revolutionary in every way, but thankfully were too late in the war & never saw action.
@@johnvigolo4972
Germans had Focus on quality to ex.:
Tiger tanks build (type I and II) approx 2,000
Sherman tanks approx 50,000
Same for planes, Quantity was far superior to quality, however the fate of the U-boats was caused by ULTRA and Radar.
It´s know form WW 2 German submariners, that Typ VII went deeper than 300 m for a short time from 1943 on. For many boats it was the last dive. But a few surfaced again.
If it was the last dive it dosent count. Type VII deeper than 300 is new to me, but even the 270-280 mentioned here is extreme. 90m was the guarantee from the manufactor.
There are numerous examples of Type VII boats diving deeper than 200m.
After U-331 (?) sank "Barham" it accidentally dropped to 280m I read.
The 90m was the "shipyard guarantee". While it was by chance that it was found out they could go deeper, it took the Royal Navy a while to find out and adjust their depth charges. Also the deeper you go the smaller the damage radius is around a depth charge explosion
Yes, many did dive deeper. But they didn't resurface.
That's explains Das boot and the captain Lehmann Willenbrocks tendency to go deeper.
Tench class could dive down to test depth and lower with greater safety margin than Balao class because of rearranged ballast tanks that eliminated riser pipes. All Tench class also had the quieter and more reliable direct drive instead of reduction gears in most of the Balao class. Tench also carried an extra 4 torpedoes compared to Balao class.
And a fully-welded hull; that helped, too.
@@rossanderson4440 What was their designed crush depth?
@@juanpecan7089 300 feet/91 meters, though at least one skipper took his boat down to 400 feet and surfaced to tell the tale.
Japanese I-201 class could easily be #10 (with a test depth of 360') rather than the British T-class (whose test depth was just 300'). Part of the problem here is that the video blithely conflates the terms "maximum safe operating depth," "test depth," and "crush depth," which are all separate and very distinct things.
damn the Germans knew how to build submarines.
you mean Nazi?
Interesting how when we are talking about atrocities we do not say Germans, but Nazi. But as here they are not Nazi, they are Germans!!:)
@@lazarduke6596 Would you say that during Trump's presidency, all US military personnel were racist, mysoginist and of the extreme right? I hope not, but if so, don't think that all Germans of the second war were evil Nazis.
@@lazarduke6596 wow you really are stupid, the Nazi's controlled the German govt, but the country was still germany
@@Railriderchris we are not talking about Trump or US military personnel, and all Germans are not Nazis, but Nazis in II WW were Germans
@@lazarduke6596 We are talking about overgeneralisation, hence why the comparison with Trump might have visualised the problem to you.
Because what's your point in wanting to say that the Nazis built great submarines instead of the word "Germans" Have you any proof that every German shipyard engineer and worker was Nazi? Or the submarines crews?
Submariners were known to have had strong anti-Nazi feelings, because they were sailors first and went for a long time away from home encapsulated in their U-Boat.
Dönitz refused a suggestion from Hitler to shoot on shipwrecked allied sailors, and during the Laconia incident, U-Boats tried to save both Axis and Allied troops shipwrecked in the sea.
Franz Stigler was a German pilot who could have won a medal from shooting down a heavily damaged B-17, but he let the allied plane fly home.
So you want to label all those peoples as being Nazis independently of the fact if they were actually supporting the party or not?
Nazis in WWII were not only German, there were a lot of personalities from other countries who helped and/or were part of the Nazi regime.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazis_of_non-Germanic_descent
My father was First Lieutenant on HM Submarine Torbay, of the British Royal Navy, on which he served the Second & Third Commissions, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. ...... Had the war continued a little longer, he might well have commanded a submarine at war. ...... Going to RNC Dartmouth in 1936 aged 13, he was just 16 when war began, and a Midshipman removed from HMS Hood just before her last voyage. ...... So he was just 22 in 1945. ...... He commanded several T-Class submarines until 1956, including in the Sea of Japan during the Korean War.
My grandfather was First Lieutenant on HM Submarines Clyde and Sealion. He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for a torpedo hit on the German battleship Gneisenau in June 1940. In the aftermath, HMS Clyde went deep to avoid the German counterattack and she plunged out of control to 600ft. He left submarines due to deteriorating eyesight and took command a torpedo boat squadron. This didn't suit him so he spent the remainder of the war as an instructor at sub school. Post war he left the Navy, as did many of his peers. But he later regretted it, saying that if he stay on to get to achieve rank of Lieutenant Commander he would have received a better pension.
@@lordhumungous7908 Lucky to have a go at a battlecruiser, and to survive 600 feet!
Yes, my father regretted leaving the navy too.
They produced some first class officers in those days.
My father had the copper bugle that was the ship's crest, and on show whenever Torbay entered port, plus the wardroom pewter mugs, as he was the last officer there when Torbay was about to be scrapped in 1945. ...... When I heard of a new Torbay being built, I phoned Northwood, and got the officer in charge of the build, to put my father in touch. ...... As he lived in South Devon, he went on board quite often, and even went on a short trip, and he arranged for my brother, sister, and myself to go over Torbay, and, of course, look through the periscope.
It was good that the old Torbay items were returned to the Navy.
The test depths of many of the boats in this video are incorrect. Test depth for a Balao was 412 feet. Test depth for Type VII/a/b/c was 200 meters (actually originally 90 meters but changed as operational and patrol experience revealed true capabilities). The Tang had a test depth of 412 feet. Richard O'Kane (Captain of Tang) pushed the boat below it's test depth in trials because he trusted the submarine's hull strength more than the blueprints stated (see Clear the Bridge by Richard O'Kane where he details his reasons and reasoning for pushing the boat deeper).
As someone who has taught submarine/anti-submarine warfare in WWII at the collegiate level, I'm sorry to say that this video is quite inaccurate as to actual listed test depths of almost all these submarines...
Thank you! Finally, someone with actual knowledge posting...
Thank you for a Major correction.
Some metals react to temperature, less ductile at lower temperatures, so was a conservative rating intended to be safe in artic waters and not applicable in the areas of operation of his boat?
Thank you. I read about Kane's assessment in another book on US Submarines in WWII
The 90m was the dockyard guarantee, 160m the test depth and 240m the (wrong) calculated crushdepth (it was actuall around 300m)
I noticed that too, but my only general reference is wikipedia, and I'm not going to trust them as authoritative. Friedman's "US Submarines Through 1945" lists Balao class as 400, same as Wikipedia, but of course only covers US submarines.
There's also something fishy about the narration which sets off alarm bells, as if it's computer generated, plus switching between metric and imperial for power; makes me wonder about their sources.
Impresionante la capacidad de los submarinos alemanes.
If you happen to be in NYC. And are interested in military history,go to the USS Intrepid,and the USS Prowler a sub. And a couple of others,I forget I was there around 1993. I have always been fascinated by the military,even ancient Egyptian,and Roman Army’s and Navy’s. Thanks Bearhunter5
And if you make it to Chicago you can walk through the German Uboat 505
@@edfrawley4356 I was there when they brought it across lake shore drive. My grandfather was in the navy in WW1 and he wanted to see the U-boat.
@@Tagurrit Its a bucket list item for me. The entire story of it is fascinating.
I’m surprised there’s not a single IJN submarine on the list. They made some damn big boats and they were premier torpedo platforms with some decent development behind them.
No IJN subs on the list but they show the I-400 class at the beginning of the vid. It only have a test depth of 100m tho
The Japenese submarines were designed for high surface speed (too keep up with their battle fleet) and range, to cover the pacific. They're often classified as "fleet submarines". The Germans went for deep diving depth and the ability to survive a depth charging. That was from WW1 experience. As they refined their designs the added increased range.
If you wanna dive deep to the inner earth beneath the ice of the antarctica, you gotta have the right tool for it.
Rumor is that they have been asked to leave and that they were on boats to Argentina.
@@victorboucher675 Yea absolutly. As a matter of principle you can surely say, that the more absurd the story has been published in the media the nearer at the truth it is.
So that means a nuclear reactor so you can stay submerged and/or a strong hull to crack the ice. WW II subs are cool and some of them can go deep, yeah. But beneath the antarctic ice is cold war nuclear sub territory :-P
I love your videos
Really nice vídeo !! 👍👍👍👍
Good and interesting video Buzz.
2:23 and 2:48 Shows the Type XXIII named U-Hecht (S171) in federal german (Bundesmarine) service late 50s or in the 60s, it was former Kriegsmarine U2367 , in the mid/late 50s the federal german Bundesmarine raised 3 former Kriegsmarine Boats from the seaground 2 Type XXIII and one Type XXI, one Type XXIII was lost in the 60s in an accident it was U-Hai (S170) ( former Kriegsmarine U 2365) only the Smut survived the other was later decommissioned and the Type XXI survived until today and is on display in Bremerhaven as a Museum Boat
Bremerhaven u-2540 after war u-boot Wilhelm Bauer testsub for Bundesmarine ....one of the XXI was a stealth boat with a Special Rubber coating....sinking by mine
@@125ccmfahrer The anechoic coating was called 'albrecht' after the wagnarian dwarf who had a coat of invisibility. A Mesh of steal and rubber with the a pattern of various pores resonant with the frequecies diesigned to be absrobed. It was tested in 1941/42 but tended to come of due to glue issues but was improved by 1944.
At the beginning of the war, France and Italy each had more than a hundred submarines of 600 to 3000 tons. How is it that none of them were mentioned?
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Type XXI had a max depth of up to 480meters, test depth where made up to max 400m, documents showed thou that it had max crush depth to att that time astonishing 800m
Test depth makes sense. Max depth of 480 is more or less reasonable (looking at previous U-boats) if we take "max depth" as "crush depth". But even suggesting that a Type XXI could have a 800m crush depth, is just ridiculous. Only one military submarine has ever reached such depths (1,020 mts, the K-278 Komsomolets) and it was made of TITANIUM. Cheers.
@@NahuCommNS The 800m figure is theory and speculation. But we shall not forget that the XXI is a well armored submarine. It was made out of a very flexible but ultra robust steel to withstand depth charges and bombs without a shred. Which detonates as near as 8-10 meters away from the boat. such as the testing trials showed in the baltic sea. Within the overall design it would sure be plausible to withstand much higher depths. It was btw the real vision behind that project to make a submarine to be able to dive into abyssal depths but time shortage ruined it.
But sure i agree that the XXI as we know today would not withstand such high depth as the Mike-class as you referring too with its inner hull made out of titanium and had a (in theory) max-crush depth of 1300m.
There were some submarines that went deeper. They are still there today.
Not going to lie but you had me in the first half
And if not confirmed they were destroyed, they are still on patrol
Which only proves the existence of a secret Nazi-base on the ocean floor
@@lowerquadrant4647 They are in the core. The hollow Earth has passages to Antarctica, also. The Nazis that went to Antarctica also went to the core. The ocean bottom passages to the core are in shallower areas where people would not think of looking. The hollow core is a breeding cesspool for Nazis. They interbreed in the core and are slowly evolving into a hideous new anthropomorphic species, but not human. They have super science to breed even faster. Their females lay eggs that hatch in 28 days verses the human 40 weeks. These hideous Nazi cannibals will surface in 39 to 114 years and destroy humanity. They already have near a billion eggs in stasis and hatch nearly 1.2 million eggs a day. Pray you are dead when the Nazi resurface happens.
the type 21 would have been my mvp for the sub with the greatest life expectancy if the war had of continued
Super brave guys🌹
TANG actually made about 750feet based on internal pressure readings within the hull during that dive incident. This occurred because a packing on one of the torpedo tube outer doors blew out. They were able to pack the inner door seal with lead packing in order to stop the water getting int the hull, and made a temporary repair after they returned to the surface. Read "CLEAR THE BRIDGE!" by RAdm Richard (Dick) O'Kane, who was her commander, for more details
They are talking about the usual diving depth were it was considered to be safe. Not max achieved depths, which was probably higher for all of these.
Was this the incident where the depth gauge in the fwd torpedo room read 1000 feet, aft 750?
@@juanpecan7089 I'd have to check: but it was the one mentioned to Dick O'Kane by one of the survivors in the Japanese POW camp- they said it was safe to tell him then, that they feared if they told him the pressure reading in the hull on that dive after it happened, he would probably use it as an excuse to dive deeper!
I believe the US submarine Tang was also air conditioned, a necessity in the Pacific Ocean.
The US submarine fleet was so effective, it destroyed 55 percent of the Japanese merchant marine fleet during WW2, starving Japan of food, oil, and rubber--all needed for both their both their military and civilians. It also sunk a great many Japanese naval warships.
I had an opportunity to visit USS Cobia in Manitowoc, a Gato-class from WWII, great boat.
Indeed, it was argued that the Pacific war
could have been bought to a successful conclusion, with the silent service alone.
Al US boats had air conditioning except for the S-Class which was a WWI design.
Actually it had an ice cream maker, the skipper was smart. Lived down the road from me, but I never met him.
After they mended their torpedoes, yes. At the begining those were disaster.
From my research over the years you really had test depth and from there the depths that a boat captain would go past that if things got too hot. Anyone who lived to tell the tale of anything deeper got there due to events or war or equipment failure and somehow they got back to the surface. A seabed save, last minute unjamming of a stuck dive plane, fixed pump, motor, battery, or valve at the last minute along with a tank blow were some of the only things to prevent those those crews from really knowing how deep their boats could go.
Great video
1983 movie "Das Boot": 40,000 German sailors served on submarines 30,000 never returned.
They were steel coffins.
its 35k
1981 not 1983
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Most realistically made "sub movie" I've ever seen...you can almost smell the diesel, sweat and poor air as well as the terror felt by the crew during depth charging. Wolfgang Peterson pretty much nailed it and gave honors to those that served (and never came back). It's a tale told of bravery, of perseverance, of ingenuity in the time of the most daunting of circumstances (much like our own "silent service members" in the era). I'm a Navy vet and I've always been drawn to subs...just didn't have the eyesight (glasses) though they would've given me a waiver for it. Took a tour in a fast attack (Skipjack-class type) and I figured I'd rather be on the surface going down than being 1,000 feet below and going down uncontrolled. Thresher and Scorpion were still fresh in my memory...
8:50 for the graph.
Can somebody explain me how long is a feet? Whose feet are you talking about. Are 1000 feet 1 mile? Is a cubefeet a gallon and how much does it weigh filled with water? A pound?
So this is easy. 1 feet is half the distance you need to lift an item to get it on an F-150 pickup-truck's flatbed. A gallon is 1/10 the size of the fuel capacity of the same F-150 pickup truck. A cubefeet is the engine displacement of the same F-150 truck. And the total pull-weight of the F-150 is 1000 pounds.
It is very easy and logical when you have this info and know the F-150 truck.
@@Mosern1977 Ah, I see. This is much easier than our metric system.
@@klauskruger6187 And we measure speed in furlongs per fortnight.
@@Mosern1977 woosh if gay, this is just unfunny
It's quite simple. 1 foot is 12 inches (1 inch is center joint to center joint of most men's left hand index finger, so the second link). 5280 feet in a statute mile (There is a Nautical mile also and that's tied to sailing as well as the projection for aircraft maps). Inches are divided into fraction. So 1/2", 1/4" and so on. One gallon of water I figure on 7 Lbs. One gallon of Gasoline is about 6 Lbs. These are the numbers I use for aircraft weights. There is also a yard. That's 3 feet. Our ton is 2000 Lbs. I think your ton is 1000 KG and 1KG is 2.2 Lbs. A pound is a measure of mass, some people think only the KG is a measure of mass. They're wrong.
It's not hard. The equivalent of the 10mm socket that gets lost first is the 7/16 and 1/2" sockets. Smaller sockets, the 1/4" socket. Lots of stuff are 1/4".
Great video and very nice pictures!
Pity the subs didn't carry more toilets. In the type VII there were two toilets though for the first part of the voyage one was used for food storage. As the subs had a compliment of 45-55 people that's a lot of people per toilet.
Perhaps that's why most navies were reluctant to have women aboard subs!
My Father served on the USS Marlin (SS206) and the USS Irex (SS482), During May/June of 1945> He was appalled by the living conditions on The German Submarines. He felt that they 'lived like animals'. The meat with mold hanging in the boats, the smell was horrendous, he said they used the bilge as a toilet. Later the Irex was training in the Caribbean and started sinking by the stern, it went way below the test depth, he didn't know exactly how deep but the y managed to blow the tanks, he felt lucky to be alive.
Good summary
A useful general comparison.
In addition to their build quality, the Type VII had a great look, sort of gothic industrial and similar to their ships. It would be interesting to know who the designers were and their backgrounds.
They were derived and much improved designes from ww1
from Luftwaffe to the Kriegsmarine all of the German war machines had a great look
this may interest you en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_II_submarine
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The type VIIC/42 never made it into service, the project was scrapped in favor of the XXI and none of the boats were far enough in construction to finish.
119 type XXI Electroboats were completed, delivered and commissioned by May 1945. I agree with your first comment.
good video
I served on a Balao-class boat, and it had a test depth of 412 as I remember. I checked Wikipedia and it appears this is correct.
I refer mainly to the USS Tang
@Jim Meyer--You are correct. The Tang's test depth was 412 feet. O'Kane just pushed it deeper so he would be able to evade counter attacks by diving beneath Japanese depth charges. Clear the Bridge by Richard O'Kane is a great read and explains all of this in detail. He would take the boat down until something broke, go back into port and have it fixed and do it again. After a few dives they could safely go to 600 feet but it was never the actual test depth of the Tang which, on the books, was still 412 feet.
Anecdote--My father served on a Gato class during WWII (7 patrols). The Gato was rated to 300 feet but they were forced down to 500 at one point. It didn't change the specified test depth simply because they exceeded it.
@@majormattmason8408 I forgot the depth, but on the USS Barb (Gato class), Capt Fluckey did a test dive until the pressure hull in a torpedo room got a dent. I think it was under 500.
My dad served aboard the Lionfish as an ordnanceman in the early 1950s. He visited Battleship Cove several times to see his old boat and reminisce. He had many good memories of his time in the Navy and of the Lionfish.
@@majormattmason8408 Tang was a thick-skin boat, and during their tests they revealed some concerning mistakes made in construction which were likely prevalent on many boats. The fact they could confidently go to 600ft, well below published test depth, saved them several times. O'Kane's book is excellent and his spirit and thoroughness for learning his boat should be a standard for all naval sub captains.
Is this a computer-generated voice?
WOW! Never looked into this before, just thought they were all about 400 to max. of 500 feet. Very surprising indeed.
to be fair, when it comes to theese old military submarines no one realy know how deep they CAN go safely. Thoose who did get to know, died a short time thereafter.
Esprit de corps, the glue that keeps those of us in or veterans of military service together.
Greetings from Poland 💖🔥
Orzel shown, but not listed... worth noticing.
Those germans designers during ww2 were really intelligent, bright and cleaver!
Yes unfortunately they were
They were clever as well !
Type 21 was the first modern submarine
Gave you like for photo of polish ORP Orzel (Eagle) at the beginning. This warship had fascinating and mysterious career - there's even a pretty good black and white film titled "Orzeł" from 1959.
I'd like to see a list of gunships.
you mean of how deep they can dive? :D
@@gutholz4443 With enough holes in them, they can dive all the way to the bottom.
Is this a human voice or computer generated? Genuine question.
Human voice of course
Computer generated, explains why it pronounced "bow" like a ribbon bow, not as the intended ship's "bow".
@@G1NZOU I've heard Nigel Planer saw bow wrongly for the sentence he was reading for an audiobook.
It's a computer generated human made using 3-D printing in a clone laboratory.
Get your facts straight. Prior to 1944, the Balao’s maximum depth was 400’. This was due to the unreliability of the trim pump at depth. However the Tang did dive to 612’ to avoid an attack. But this was not a sanctioned max depth dive, it was survival. And even then the boat took on water in the forward compartments. In 1944 the Goulds trim pump was redesigned and the maximum depth was increased. And with the existing tensile strength of the steel hull, it was calculated that the boats could safely dive down to 900’.
My Dad was on The Samuel B. Roberts DD 823.
In worst situations, some Type VII go down 300m and a few more. Only very less of the "few more" can report about it ;)
Without any discussion the XXI was the only real Sub Marine in WW2, it was genius ...
Tell that to a 3rd of Japanese warships.
Had a girlfriend once who could go down ALL THE WAY! Truly gifted was she!
And I am sure she knew how to use the snorkel as well. Lucky you!
Le sous marin U boot type 7 à été un des plus extraordinaires. Il ne lui manquait plus que l'équipement radar et un brouilleur d'ondes, aussi en période d' attaque par largage de grenade sous marine était utilisé un leure, c'était un larguage d'un cylindre qui faisait des bulles et qui diffusait des particules d'aluminium pour tromper les Radars des corvette de "l'alliance". Historiquement le U Boote qui a plongé le plus profond pour éviter les grenades sous marines à été de 300 mètres !
Type 7 U-boats, I-13 and I-400 class are my favorite subs
Keep buzzing guys...🎉
when they get struck by 2 or 3 depth charges they dive even deeper..... unintentionally..
xD
Good morning to all from SE Louisiana 14 Jul 22.
Das muss das Boot abkönnen.
I served on the USS Redfish SS-395. The redfish was called a “Fleet Type” submarine and had 4 x 16 Cylinder Farirbanks-Morse Diesel engines and was not equipped with a snorkel. The reason I bring this up was that the test depths of the submarines listed seem, to me, un real. Our test depth was 407 feet and the one time we exceeded that we flooded the after engine room and had to emergency surface.
for the german type VII C the shipyard warranty was 90 meters, 300 ft. altough it was common to dive about 180-200 meters (600-650 ft) to escape water bombs. the deepest ever recorded dive from a german submarine was 310 meters (1050 ft) after getting bombed by a british radar-equipped Mosquito. the boat was badly damaged and had several leaks and lay on ground for almost 3 days but the crew managed to fix the leaks, repair the boat and submerge. the XXI was build for a normal dive depth of 200 meters,(660ft) there are reports that they managed to dive 300 meters (1000 ft)some of the captured XXI were tested by the US and British Navy and both veryfied a tested depth of 250 meters ( 800 ft) plus X because they, of course, didn't know what the point of no return was.
I bet a few U boat commanders thought i hope the slave welders did their job right.
"Das muß das Boot abkönnen......"
played silent hunter 3 and absolutely loved it
but i never dived deeper than 200m
Those are just the dephts guranteed by the manufacturer. (Gefechtstauchtiefe ~operating depth).
Alot of uboats went deeper and survived. The calculated depth for the VII was 400m, or 1300 feet. (Zerstörungstiefe = ~destruction depth)
Dont you know the movie "Das Boot"? The best german war movie ever made..
ruclips.net/video/97Gr4WKEkS0/видео.html
The directors cut, long version is the one I own.
The Photographers exposed films (Agfa l would bet) were found many years later, developed and there is a great book about it.
Mam make an vedio on Russian ekranoplane
There are a number of those already, with much history & detail.
Test depth and crush depth are different creatures. Test depth is a definite known value, whereas crush depth is theoretical . Those unfortunate enough to have experienced crush depth never made it back to the surface to tell us about it.
Agreed...(think "Thresher '63)...mechanical test failure, I believe. USS Scorpion ('67) was (I think) a different failure than Thresher's. Nobody really knows as nobody's lived to tell, the photographic evidence doesn't show cause and the sea won't give up her secrets. (Ex-Navy; reactor operator here, BTW)
For anone wondering the Submarine (U-995) in 8:17 Stands at a Museum In laboe germany its near Kiel and you can even enter and fully explore the submarine i was in there its pretty cool
so, what type of U Boat is shown in the famous movie Dasboot?
A type VII but an earlier one!
type VII/B
Thanks
U96 a type 7b
Judging by its conning tower and hull, looks like it was a Type VII
Entertaining but i suspect a load of nonsense. As others have pointed out after some operational experience many of these vessels would have been uprated. That and many of their shipyard depth guarantees would have been very conservative. I suspect that in practice British and German submarines would not have been so different. Also the ability to deep dive, in of itself may have been rather irrelevant, the question is for how long and what operational actions could be undertaken at such depth.
Type VII 270m/890 feet
No mention of Dutch K and O class submarines.
Technology caught up with the Kriegsmarine, with no place to hide. Advanced radar on the B-24 VLR bombers allowed them to spot the u boat on the surface, or under water. During night operations, subs from all countries would travel above water, to charge the batteries and allow the sailors to have a brief respite. The German navy was running short of critical parts and manpower by the beginning of 1944, and of course towards the end there weren't enough trained submariners to man the boats. Out of the 40,000 or so German u boat crewmen, around 30,000 were lost. Much of the critical Technology that we see today in nearly all submarines was borne out of German engineering
The critical technologies they needed to turn things around was just comming into service in late 1944 or early 1945. There was the Type XXI with 4 times (even 6 times) the under water range, stealth radar coating called Schornsteinfehger for masts, a series of radar detectors for 3cm, 9cm and 0.5-1.5m radar with names like Athos, a radar the could detect any aircraft with a single pulse for 100km around called FuMO 391 lansing, a infrared detector for detecting patrol aircraft, a microwave search radar called Berlin which could be used submerged and a radar directed gun system called ball spiel, a radio telemetry 'burst mode' system which in its 3F single sidbe band suppresed carrier mode couldn't be direction found or detected, a radar called the balkon geraet that could aim torpdoes without it being possible to be direction found (3 doppler pulse to short to D/F with min/max methods) and a new code called enignal UKWD.
Most German and Japanese subs made it all the way to the bottom....
:-]
ya just not the type 21s tho
as bitter as it is( specially for a german like me...) it is true.there is always a kind of strange feeling when it comes to the technical advance germany had in this time because of the cost. i am not talking about germany beeing bombed but germany beeing the fascist nation it was and the cost of lives of innocent slaved people. in one way i am proud we had the best technologies, best planes, best submarines...on the other hand, gosh, what a nightmare it would be if we had won this war....
@@denniskersten4377 Great in some areas, terrible in others like encryption. Or nuclear wepons.
@@denniskersten4377 USSR did win WW-2 (in the Europe/Western Asia theatre anyway). Stalin and Hitler were two apples from the same tree, so...
If Hitler won, USSR would have SS concentration camps instead of GULAG-s. People would be gassed instead of starved in far-eastern Siberia.
And in history books we'd now read about how the heroic Nazi nation beat the horrible Communist party.
Remember kids: the good guys always win. So whoever lost a war - will be the horrible villians.
P.S. I'm Russian and my grandfather fought in WW-2. My great-grandfather fought alongside with the Bolshevik's, but then regretted it deeply and sorrowly. Great-grandpa realized he's helped the villians win a war. Didn't have much of a choice if he wanted his family to survive though.
No mention of Italian submarines.
Which text to speech software you used
Please tell me
Inaudible confusing beta
I blows me away that the Krauts had Uboats in the Black Sea, they were carried by rail, rivers and canals to get there !
I would have got that wrong on a test. I figured it was crazy to do that. Impractical. Turns out I was right. They used the small U-boats and it was very difficult to do that. Short lived as well. They probably would have been better off not doing it.
One type 7c U- boat evading a D D successfully reached 1,000 feet !
We'll just let the low ball diving capabilities for the type vii and ix slide
It’s Thomsen!!!!
All German.. :) tells you a lot about WW2 German submarine tech and how superior it is.
Well, they certainly built the deepest diving subs. But the critical capability was not extreme depth, but how fast a sub could dive. The German Type VIIs were also the best in this regard. US subs were a little slower, but, on the other hand, US subs had radar, and could usually detect an enemy at greater ranges than U Boat crews could, so they could afford to be a little slower diving.
In the end though, the US submarine fleet succeeded in doing to the Japanese what the Germans tried and failed to do to the British: sinking an island nation's merchant fleet and starving it of supplies it couldn't afford to do without.
you mean Nazi tech?
Interesting how when we are talking about atrocities we do not say Germans, but Nazi. But as here they are not Nazi, they are Germans!!:)
Still sunk ...
Of the 863 German submarines that were used, 784 were sunk.
Of the 40,000 men on board these submarines, over 30,000 died while on duty ...
@@ULTRA_2112 Ill give you 863 Submarines and Ill give your enemy The Royal Navy and the US navy, tell me how will you fair?
Do you know what's logic? What do you expect when Germany is fighting 2 of the strongest navies. you expect them to win, or you expect them to not lose a lot?
@@Justineexy
Surprise surprise...
I'm German, that's why I know it so well.
The Nazis were idiots, they could never have won the war against the British Commonwealth, the Soviet Union and the United States.
Hitler waged a war of aggression and let our people die for nothing ...
Half of Europe destroyed, millions of people killed for nothing!
Men diesel engines????
M A N diesel engines!
M A N = Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAN
M.A.N actually, until they tampered with the logo in recent years. Wenn scho' Klugscheissen, dann richtig!
Well, German submarines did have two of them.
@@ostrich67 Not only. There were Germaniawerft Diesel engines for example on U-47.
The Type IX D1 had Mercedes-Benz engines, but that was rubbish.
@@ULTRA_2112 "Men" is the plural of "man" in English. Since the U-boat has two MAN engines, you could say they're MEN.
It's a joke, son.
Ich bin noch nicht bereit Deutsch zu lernen!!!!!
The balazo class con only five to 460 feet and also fun fact some type VIIC/41 would go down to almost 300 meters in desperate maneuvers to avoid their hunters
Nope. Balao went deeper than that. I have read accounts of around 600' and VIIC/41 of around 800'.
I was not a bit surprised that most of the boats on this list were German.
Most U boats achieved depths commensurate with the depth of the water, especially after meeting Johny Walker.
The Nazis did build and engineer some great stuff during there short time in power, those Uboats almost won them the Atlantic!! A thing I never understood about Hitler was in his book he said you never start a war on 2 fronts, what does he do attacks west than east!! His main goal was to attack Russia imagine if he never attacked France or Poland, does anyone really think that the Allie’s would have went all in to back Russia?? I don’t!!
I second that motion!!! 🤠👍
Hitler didn't start a war on two fronts. He completed all of his objectives in western Europe and then north Africa before moving on to eastern Europe, he fought in one theatre at a time until we forced multiple theatres on him.
@@krashd Yes but when you take a country over you still have to leave a lot off troops and equipment to keep it secure!! France , Norway, North Africa, Italy, Poland and Russia!!! He bit off way more than he could chew!!! By the end of the war Hitler had 12 year olds and 70 year old fighting for him! Oh and he had millions of imaginary troops also!!!
can you do todays submarines PLEASE
She already has one
RIP to all the brave young men who lost there lifes in these metal coffins as they were known in ww2
Wikipedia about XXI say it is 280.
dam that German engineering
Still sunk ...
Of the 863 German submarines that were used, 784 were sunk.
Of the 40,000 men on board these submarines, over 30,000 died while on duty ...
@@ULTRA_2112 dam
Ever wonder the how and why of that?
U boats are the most legendary weapons of Nazi Germany...
Pretty much the most obsessed type of ship on the kreigsmaride
Laughs in Tiger I and MG-42
@@deslow7411 Tiger was a joke compared to amount of tonnage the u boats sunk, mg-42 is too but the sub was top tier tech
And not only didn’t they actually do the job effectively, but the fact that they could dive deeper than everyone else, was also not the most effective thing too.!.!.!.!.!. Otherwise they wouldn’t have lost so many boats, and they would’ve stopped the British from being able to carry on trading, and thereby they would’ve helped the nazis to win the battle of the Atlantic, but they didn’t, end of.............
Hmm...V2 rockets? Jet fighter planes?
7/10 spots were claimed by the Germans, I thought for sure the Gato's would be in there somewhere.
German technology from back then always amazes me. They invented night vision and were researching the creation of an artificial antiquity field using a huge device with counter rotating electromagnets and very high voltage. The foundation still exists in a part of what is now Poland I believe. The Soviet Red Army blew most of it up but the device itself and any data was shipped to Argentina on a huge 4 engine aircraft by SS General Hans Kammler. Skeptics say the installation was a water cooling facility which is absolute nonsense. It was located way out in a forest and not near any cities or towns. Actual documents were found in Argentina by a researcher some years ago. The device and German scientists were starting the project again under the auspices of Juan Peron. The U.S. GOV found out and went down to gather up what they could and brought it back here. Hard to believe but true.
Correction: anti-gravity field. The spell checking on this tablet sucks. Sorry for the error!