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Old 03-20-09, 10:50 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by Graf Paper View Post
For all that redesign to give the VIIC better sea-keeping than the VIIB, you'd think it would have improved her speed. Instead, the VIIB is faster in all regards; suface speed, submerged speed, and dive time.
Actually the VIIB was faster than the VIIC, by a very tiny amount.
http://www.uboat.net/types/viib.htm
http://www.uboat.net/types/viic.htm
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