German submarine U-428

Type VIIC submarine

Service

Kriegsmarine as U-42826 June 1943 — 5 May 1945679 days of the war

Type VIIC submarine Particulars

Name: U-428
Builder: Danziger Werft, Danzig
Ordered: 5 June 1941
Laid down: 13 August 1942
Launched: 11 March 1943
Commissioned: 26 June 1943
Fate: Scuttled in northern Germany on 5 May 1945. Wreck broken up in 1946 (1945)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 757 long tons (769 t)
Displacement, submerged: 857 long tons (871 t)
Length: 67.1 m (220.1 ft) OA
Beam: 6.2 m (20.3 ft)
Draught: 4.74 m (15.6 ft)
Speed: 17.7 knots (32.8 km/h, 20.4 mph)
Range: 8,500 nmi (15,742 km)
Main gun: 88 mm (3.5 in)

U-428 was a Type VIIC submarine built for the Kriegsmarine. Danziger Werft, Danzig laid her keel on 13 August 1942. She entered service on 26 June 1943, having been launched on 11 March 1943.

Her class ran to 612 ships. The class followed the Type UB III, Vetehinen class and was succeeded by the Type XXI (Late-war replacement).

The boat displaced 757 long tons surfaced and 857 long tons submerged. She measured 67.1 m (220 ft) long with a beam of 6.2 m (20 ft). Her designed speed was 17.7 knots.

Her main battery was one 88 mm (3.5 in) guns.

She was in commission for 679 days of the Second World War.

She was scuttled on 5 May 1945. The wreck survives.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 shafts
2 × diesel engines
2 × electric motors.
Power: 2800 - 3200 PS (diesels)
750 PS (electric)
Armament: 5 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (four bow, one stern)
14 × torpedoes
1 × 8.8 cm deck gun (220 rounds)
2 × twin 2 cm C/30 anti-aircraft guns

Sister ships

587 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from German submarine U-428 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: NSA — http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ETO/Ultra/SRH-009/SRH009-5.html — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons