Allied Warships


Submarines

B class

6 ships

Technical information

TypeSubmarine
Displacement425 / 540 BRT 
Length 
Complement23 men 
Armament1 3" gun
4 18" torpedo tubes 
Max speed14.5 / 10.5 knots (surfaced/submerged)
Notes on class 


All ships of the B class


Royal Norwegian Navy (more on Royal Norwegian Navy)

HNoMS B-1
HNoMS B-2
HNoMS B-3 Lost on 9 Jun 1940
HNoMS B-4
HNoMS B-5
HNoMS B-6


6 Submarines of the B class. 1 of them was lost.

See all Submarine classes.



Diving stations
Peter Dornan

Books dealing with this subject include:

Abandon Ship!, Newcomb, Richard F., 2000
Above Us the Waves, Warren, C.E.T. and Benson, James, 1971 (transl.)
Advance Force - Pearl Harbor, Burlingame, Burl, 2002
Air war over the nore, Jonathan Sutherland, 2010
Aircraft Versus Submarine, Price, Alfred, 1980 (transl.)
Airships vs. Submarines, Van Treuren, Richard G., 2009
Allied Submarine Attacks of World War Two, Rohwer, Jürgen, 1997
Allied Submarines, Watts, Anthony J., 1977
Allied Submarines of World War Two, Poolman, Kenneth, 1990 (transl.)
American Submarine War Patrol Reports: U.S.S. Wahoo (SS-238), McDaniel, J.T. (editor), 2003
American Submarines, Lenton, H.T., 1973
Assault on a Queen, Finney, Jack, 1959
Axis Submarines, Watts, Anthony J., 1977
Bacalao, McDaniel, J.T., 2004
Back from the Deep, LaVO, Carl, 1998



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