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Re: Numbering/Consecutive Numbers of UBoats?
Posted by: Cape Crusader ()
Date: January 19, 2010 10:39AM

Slightly off-topic perhaps, but on 30 September 1943 a general order was issued that virtually cancelled all construction work on ordered Type VIIC boats, in favour of the new Elektro boats.
Boat numbers were allocated on placement of the order; a subsequently cancelled order would leave a gap in the sequential numbering of completed boats.
Appendix 6 of Peter Sharpe's book "U-BOAT FACT FILE" (ISBN 1 85780 072 9) gives a very good guide to these cancelled U-boat orders and thereby identifies the gaps in the numbers allocated to completed boats.

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Numbering/Consecutive Numbers of UBoats? BHenderson 01/17/2010 01:38AM
Re: Numbering/Consecutive Numbers of UBoats? JTMcDaniel 01/19/2010 04:50AM
Re: Numbering/Consecutive Numbers of UBoats? Walter Schmidt 01/19/2010 05:28AM
Re: Numbering/Consecutive Numbers of UBoats? JTMcDaniel 01/19/2010 09:07PM
Re: Numbering/Consecutive Numbers of UBoats? Cape Crusader 01/19/2010 10:39AM


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