page_title: Seehund
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Seehund / Production
caption_attribution_description: Photograph from left front above of German Seehund midget submarine No. 075 from World War II, next to USS Salem at Quincy, Massachusetts.
context_page_description: The Seehund, also known as Type XXVII, was a midget submarine manufactured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Designed in 1944 and operated by two-man crews, it was used by the Kriegsmarine during the closing months of the war, sinking nine merchant vessels and damaging an additional three, while losing 35 boats, mostly attributed to bad weather. The French Navy used four captured boats after the war until 1953.
context_section_description: The first contract for Seehund construction was placed on 30 July 1944. Enthusiasm for the submarine was so high that most of the contracts and hull numbers were allocated even before the design was completed. A total of 1,000 boats were ordered, Germaniawerft and Schichau-Werke were to build 25 and 45 boats per month respectively. Other centers involved in Seehund production were CRD-Monfalcone on the Adriatic and Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz at Ulm.
  However, Dönitz would not consent to the production of the Type XXVIIA being held up for Seehund construction, while shortages of raw material, labor and transport problems, and conflicting priorities in Germany's economy all combined to reduce Seehund production. In the end Seehund production was undertaken by Germaniawerft at Kiel using a facility which was no longer needed for Type XXI or Type XXIII production. A total of 285 Seehunds were constructed and allocated numbers in the range U-5501 to U-6442.
caption: Seehund 075 at the United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
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