Talk:Type XVII submarine
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editThis articles contains some inaccuracies with regard to the scuttling of the the U-1406 and U-1407. Although the scuttling of the U-1405 was done by its crew the U-1406 and 1407 were not. They were surrendered lawfully by their crews. It was Oberleutnant Gerhard Grumpelt, who was not a crew member of either boat, who scuttled them.
This is discussed here. http://uboat.net/articles/80.html
A report about Grumpelt’s Court Martial can be found in "Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Vol, 1, English Edition", HMSO, 1947.
Any additional comments on this? DieselDude (talk) 20:04, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
The text states that for the Type XVIIA submarines the length to beam ratio was too high, resulting in an unnecessarily high drag. I think it wuld be normally put the other way round ie beam to length ratio too great, as it was the beam that was too great relative too the length — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.31.202.145 (talk) 13:50, 4 April 2013 (UTC)