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Originally Posted by gap
Another piece of the puzzle: according to Möller and Brack (The encyclopedia of U-Boats, p. 69), Type VIIA's armament included:
so it seems that even VIIA boats had their conning tower upgraded, but indeed by the reported date, no one of them was a front boat anymore.  |
Yes, Blair notes that the Type VIIA boats were hampered by poor range (they lack the saddle tanks of the later Type VIIs) and problems with their diesels. Of the ten Type VIIs built, I think only about three or four of them survived to 1940, and these quickly became training boats in the Baltic.