German submarine U-24 (1936)
| Career (Nazi Germany) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | U-24 |
| Ordered: | 2 February 1935 |
| Builder: | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
| Yard number: | 554 |
| Laid down: | 21 April 1936 |
| Launched: | 24 September 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 10 October 1936 |
| Fate: | Scuttled on 25 August 1944, at Constanza in the Black Sea |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | IIB |
| Type: | Coastal submarine |
| Displacement: | 279 t (275 long tons) surfaced 328 t (323 long tons) submerged |
| Length: | 42.70 m (140 ft 1 in) |
| Beam: | 4.08 m (13 ft 5 in) |
| Draft: | 3.90 m (12 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × propeller shafts 2 × MWM four-stroke diesel engines, 700 shp (520 kW) 2 × Siemens-Schuckert electric motor, 360 shp (270 kW) |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) surfaced 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) submerged |
| Range: | 1,800 nautical miles (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) surfaced 35–43 nmi (65–80 km; 40–49 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged |
| Test depth: | 80 m (260 ft) |
| Complement: | 3 officers, 22 men |
| Armament: |
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| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
Kriegsmarine: 1st U-boat Flotilla 3rd U-boat Flotilla 21st U-boat Flotilla 30th U-boat Flotilla |
| 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: |
One ship sunk for a total of 961 gross register tons (GRT); five warships sunk for a total of 571 tons; one ship damaged of 7.661 GRT; one ship a total loss - 7,886 GRT |
German submarine U-24 was a Type IIB U-boat that was in service of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 21 April 1936 at the F. Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel with yard number 554, launched on 24 September and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on 10 October. Oberleutnant zur See Heinz Buchholz took command on 3 July 1937.
Fate
To serve in the 30th U-boat Flotilla, she was transported overland and via the Danube to the Black Sea. On 25 August 1944, U-24 was scuttled at Konstanza, on the Romanian Black Sea coast to prevent the advancing Soviet forces from capturing it. She was raised by the Soviet Union in early 1945, but sunk as target practice by the Soviet submarine M-120 on 26 May 1947, off Sevastopol (also sunk that same day was the former U-18).
Summary of raiding career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 November 1939 | Carmarthen Coast |  United Kingdom |
961 | Sunk (mine) |
| 31 March 1943 | Kreml' |  Soviet Union |
7,661 | Damaged |
| 15 June 1943 | BTSC Zashitnik (No 26) | Soviet Union |
441 | Sunk |
| 30 July 1943 | Emba | Soviet Union |
7,866 | Total loss |
| 22 August 1943 | DB-36 | Soviet Union |
9 | Sunk |
| 22 August 1943 | DB-37 | Soviet Union |
9 | Sunk |
| 31 October 1943 | SKA-38 | Soviet Union |
56 | Sunk |
| 12 May 1944 | SKA-0376 | Soviet Union |
56 | Sunk |
References
- ↑ Gröner 1985, p. 67.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit by U-24". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
Bibliography
- Busch, Rainer; Röll, Hans-Joachim (1999). Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945. Der U-Boot-Krieg (in German) IV (Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Mittler). ISBN 3-8132-0514-2.
- Gröner, Erich (1985). U-Boote, Hilfskreuzer, Minenschiffe, Netzleger, Sperrbrecher. Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815-1945 (in German) III (Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe). ISBN 3-7637-4802-4.
External links
- Helgason, Guðmundur. "The Type IIB boat U-24". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ubootwaffe.net webpage about U-24
- Hofmann, Markus. "U 24". Deutsche U-Boote 1935-1945 - u-boot-archiv.de (in German). Retrieved 2014-12-06.
- U-24 documentary for U-24
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