German submarine U-239
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | U-239 |
| Ordered: | 20 January 1941 |
| Builder: | Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel |
| Yard number: | 669 |
| Laid down: | 14 May 1942 |
| Launched: | 28 January 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 13 March 1943 |
| Fate: | Damaged in July 1944, broken up in the same year[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Type VIIC submarine |
| Displacement: |
769 tonnes (757 long tons) surfaced 871 t (857 long tons) submerged |
| Length: |
67.1 m (220 ft 2 in) o/a 50.5 m (165 ft 8 in) pressure hull |
| Beam: |
6.2 m (20 ft 4 in) o/a 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in) pressure hull |
| Draft: | 4.74 m (15 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion: |
2 × supercharged Germaniawerft 6-cylinder 4-stroke F46 diesel engines, totalling 2,800–3,200 bhp (2,100–2,400 kW). Max rpm: 470-490 2 × electric motors, totalling 750 shp (560 kW) and max rpm: 296. |
| Speed: |
17.7 knots (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph) surfaced 7.6 knots (14.1 km/h; 8.7 mph) submerged |
| Range: |
15,170 km (8,190 nmi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced 150 km (81 nmi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged |
| Test depth: |
230 m (750 ft) Crush depth: 250–295 m (820–968 ft) |
| Complement: | 44–52 officers and ratings |
| Armament: |
5 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes (four bow, one stern) 14 × G7e torpedoes or 26 TMA mines 1 × 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun(220 rounds) Various AA guns |
| Service record[2] | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
5th U-boat Flotilla (13 March–1 July 1943) 22nd U-boat Flotilla (1 July 1943–24 July 1944) 31st U-boat Flotilla (25 July–5 August 1944) |
| Commanders: |
Kptlt. Hubert Nordheimer (3 January–14 May 1943) |
| Operations: | None |
| Victories: | None |
German submarine U-239 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
The submarine was laid down on 14 May 1942 at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft yard at Kiel as 'werk' 669, launched on 28 January 1943 and commissioned on 13 March under the command of Leutnant zur See Ulrich Vöge.[2]
After training with the 5th U-boat Flotilla at Kiel, she went to the 22nd flotilla as a 'school' boat and then back to the 5th flotilla.
She was damaged in Kiel by British bombs in July 1944 and broken up in the same year.
Fate
She was damaged in a British air raid at the Germania Werke in Kiel on 24 July 1944 which also killed one crewman,[3] she was then broken up later that same year.
See also
- List of German U-boats
References
- Notes
- ↑ Kemp, Paul: U-Boats Destroyed - German Submarine Losses in the World Wars, 1997, Arms & Armour, ISBN 1-85409-515-3, p. 205
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Type VIIC boat U-239 - German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ↑ http://ubootwaffe.net/ops/boat.cgi
- Bibliography
External links
- U-239 at u-boot-archiv.de (German)
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