Unterseeboot 24 (1936)

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Career (Nazi Germany)

Name:	U-24
Ordered:	February 2, 1935
Builder:	Germaniawerft, Kiel, yard 554
Laid down:	April 21, 1936
Launched:	September 24, 1936
Commissioned:	October 10, 1936
Fate:	Scuttled August 25, 1944 at Konstanza in the Black Sea.
Class and type:	Type II U-boat

Service record
Part of	Kriegsmarine: 1. Unterseebootsflottille 3. Unterseebootsflottille 21. Unterseebootsflottille 30. Unterseebootsflottille
Identification codes	M 24 897
Commanders	Heinz Buchholz Udo Behrens Harald Jeppener-Haltenhoff Udo Heilmann Dietrich Borchert Helmut Hennig Hardo Rodler von Roithberg Klaus Petersen Clemens Schöler Dieter Lenzmann Martin Landt-Hayen
Operations	20
Victories	1 ship sunk for a total of 961 gross register tons (GRT) 5 warships sunk for a total of 571 tons 1 ship damaged for a total of 7.661 GRT 1 ship a total loss for a total of 7.886 GRT

Unterseeboot 24 (also known as U-24) was a German Type IIB U-boat that was in service during World War II. It was laid down April 21, 1936 and commissioned on October 10, 1936.

[edit] Fate

On August 25, 1944 U-18 was scuttled at Constanţa in the Black Sea to prevent the advancing Soviets forces to capture it. It was raised by the Soviet Union in early 1945 but sunk again by the Soviet submarine M-120 on May 26, 1947 off Sevastopol (also sunk that same day was the former U-18).