German Type VII Submarine - Type VIIF

Type VIIF

The Type VIIF boats were designed in 1941 as supply boats to rearm U-boats at sea once they had used up their torpeodes. This required a lengthened hull and they were the largest and heaviest type VII boats built. They were armed identically with the other Type VIIs except that they could have up to 39 torpedoes onboard and had no deck guns.

Only four Type VIIFs were built. Two of them, U-1062 and U-1059, were sent to support the Monsun Gruppe in the Far East; U-1060 and U-1061 remained in the Atlantic. Type VIIF U-boats used the same engines as the Type VIID class. Three were sunk during the war, the last was scuttled after the war along with the majority of the surrendered U boats

List of Type VIIF submarines
Name of U-boat Date launched Date commissioned Notes
U-1059 01943-03-1212 March 1943 01943-05-011 May 1943 sunk by Allied aircraft on second supply patrol in support of Far East operations
U-1060 01943-03-088 March 1943 01943-05-1515 May 1943 completed 6 supply patrols before wrecked by Allied aircraft in October 1944
U-1061 01943-04-2222 April 1943 01943-08-2525 August 1943 completed five supply patrols and was surrendered at end of war
U-1062 01943-05-088 May 1943 01943-06-1919 June 1943 sunk by US escorts on return from first supply patrol to Far East

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