German submarine U-1017
Service
- as U-101713 April 1944 — 29 April 1945380 days of the war
- Name
- U-1017
- Builder
- Blohm & Voss AG, Hamburg
- Ordered
- 23 March 1942
- Laid down
- 19 April 1943
- Launched
- 1 March 1944
- Commissioned
- 13 April 1944
- Fate
- Sunk on 29 April 1945 at 56 by RAF Liberator bomber
By aircraft (1945) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 747 long tons (759 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 857 long tons (871 t)
- Length
- 67.23 m (220.6 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-1017 was a Type VIIC/41 submarine of the Kriegsmarine. Blohm & Voss AG, Hamburg laid her keel on 19 April 1943. Launched on 1 March 1944, she entered service on 13 April 1944.
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 747 long tons surfaced and 857 long tons submerged. She measured 67.2 m (221 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 380 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 29 April 1945 by aircraft, at 56°04′N 11°06′W. The wreck survives.
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 shafts
- 2 × diesel engines
- 2 × electric motors
- Power
- 2800 - 3200 PS (diesels)
- 750 PS (electric)
- Armament
- 5 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 1 stern)
- 14 × torpedoes
- 1 × 8.8 cm deck gun (220 rounds)
- 1 × 3.7 cm Flak M42 AA gun
- 2 × 2 cm C/30 AA guns
Sister ships
- French submarine Laubie
- German submarine U-1000
- German submarine U-1004
- German submarine U-1018
- German submarine U-1021
- German submarine U-1022
- German submarine U-1023
- German submarine U-1024
- German submarine U-1051
- German submarine U-1052
- German submarine U-1053
- German submarine U-1054
- German submarine U-1055
- German submarine U-1056
- German submarine U-1057
- German submarine U-1058
- German submarine U-1063
- German submarine U-1064
- German submarine U-1065
- German submarine U-1101
- German submarine U-1102
- German submarine U-1131
- German submarine U-1132
- German submarine U-1161
Sources
- Facts harvested from German submarine U-1017 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Darkone — CC BY-SA 2.0 — Wikimedia Commons