No periscope firing

03-27-07, 08:25 PM

I hope I can answer this correctly.

As far as I know from my reading about U-boats and the Battle of the Atlantic, etc., the only U-boat capable of firing without observation was the Type XXI. However, only one or two Type XXIs became operational (post training and workup) by April 1945. As we know the war ended on or about May 9, 1945 and therefore not one torpedo was ever fired by a Type XXI at an enemy target.

A U-boat Captain by the name of Shnee commanded the first Type XXI. After receiving Donetz's message of capitulation in early May 1945, he made a unobserved, submerged torpedo attack on some British cruisers but he never fire a torpedo.

While I have done no reading on the US submarine warfare in the Pacific, I've been told that only one US sub commander made a successful torpedo firing by hydropnone contact on an enemy target during WWII.

03-27-07, 08:25 PM	#2
von Zelda Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I hope I can answer this correctly. As far as I know from my reading about U-boats and the Battle of the Atlantic, etc., the only U-boat capable of firing without observation was the Type XXI. However, only one or two Type XXIs became operational (post training and workup) by April 1945. As we know the war ended on or about May 9, 1945 and therefore not one torpedo was ever fired by a Type XXI at an enemy target. A U-boat Captain by the name of Shnee commanded the first Type XXI. After receiving Donetz's message of capitulation in early May 1945, he made a unobserved, submerged torpedo attack on some British cruisers but he never fire a torpedo. While I have done no reading on the US submarine warfare in the Pacific, I've been told that only one US sub commander made a successful torpedo firing by hydropnone contact on an enemy target during WWII.