Full description of the Type XXI design, including wartime experimental conversions and career history.

Extensive pictorial section with rare views of the Type XXI.

Colour guide and action painting on the jacket.

More than 140 perspective and 3-view drawings.

The design of the type XXI U-Boat was the prototype of the modern conventionally powered submarine. The first Type XXI boats were launched in the spring of 1944. These remarkable vessels incorporated a number of bold innovations including the schnorkel, which allowed it to run fast underwater employing its diesel machinery, and automatic torpedo reloading systems.

Author: Fritz Kohl

40 mono, 145 drawings
128 pages
September 2002
240 x 254 mm
Hardback PPC with French-folded jacket

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