Kriegsmarine — Submarine
German submarine U-1164
Service
- as U-116427 October 1943 — 24 July 1944271 days of the war
German submarine U-1164
Particulars
- Name
- U-1164
- Builder
- Danziger Werft AG, Danzig
- Ordered
- 14 October 1941
- Laid down
- 11 December 1942
- Launched
- 3 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 27 October 1943
- Fate
- Sunk on 24 July 1944
Decommissioned and broken up after being raised (1944) - Status
- Scrapped
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)
- Complement
- 44
- Main gun
- 88 mm (3.5 in)
U-1164 was a submarine in service with the Kriegsmarine. Danziger Werft AG, Danzig laid her keel on 11 December 1942. Launched on 3 July 1943, she entered service on 27 October 1943.
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, and she carried a complement of 44.
Her main battery was one 88 mm (3.5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 271 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 24 July 1944.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × electric motors
- 2 × screws
- Power
- 2 × diesel engines
- 2800 - 3200 PS (diesels)
- 750 PS (electric)
- Armament
- 5 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 1 stern)
- 14 × torpedoes or
- 26 × TMA or TMB Naval mines
- 1 × 8.8 cm deck gun (220 rounds)
- 1 × 3.7 cm Flak M42 AA gun
- 2 × 2 cm C/30 AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from German submarine U-1164 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Darkone — CC BY-SA 2.0 — Wikimedia Commons