Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Kriegsmarine — Submarine

German submarine U-1013

German submarine U-1013
Darkone — CC BY-SA 2.0 — Wikimedia Commons Plate U 995 , Naval Museum in Laboe near Kiel, Germany

Service

  1. Kriegsmarine as U-10132 March 1944 — 17 March 194415 days of the war
German submarine U-1013 Particulars
Name
U-1013
Builder
Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Ordered
23 March 1942
Laid down
26 March 1943
Launched
19 January 1944
Commissioned
2 March 1944
Fate
Sunk on 17 March 1944
Raised on 16 July 1944, decommissioned and probably broken up (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-1013 was a submarine of the Kriegsmarine. Blohm & Voss, Hamburg laid her keel on 26 March 1943. She entered service on 2 March 1944, having been launched on 19 January 1944.

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 15 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap on 17 March 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

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