D.K.M. U 995
1943
(Neptun 1077c)
- Class: Type VIIC/41 -- 572 submarines of 1939-44
- Displacement: 769/871 tons
- Dimensions: 220.25 x 20.25 x 15.75 ft.
- Machinery: 2-shaft diesel/electric motors, B.H.P. 2,800/750 = 17/7.5 knots
- Radius: 6,500 miles at 12 knots / 80 miles at 4 knots
- Armament: 1-37 mm A.A., 4-20 mm A.A. (2x2) guns; 5-21 in. T.T.(4 bow, 1 stern); 14 torpedoes or 14 mines
- Complement: 44
- Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Laid Down: 25 Nov 1942
- Launched: 22 Jul 1943
- Commissioned: 16 Sep 1943
- Service: Made 9 war patrols, sinking 5 ships for a total of 9,000 tons. Stricken at Trondheim, Norway, 8 May 1945. Surrendered to Britain and then transferred to Norway in Oct 1948. Became the Norwegian submarine Kaura on 1 Dec 1952. Stricken in 1965. Returned to Germany she became a museum ship near Kiel in Oct 1971.
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