German submarine U-1024
Service
- as U-102428 June 1944 — 12 April 1945288 days of the war
- Name
- U-1024
- Builder
- Blohm & Voss AG, Hamburg
- Ordered
- 13 June 1942
- Laid down
- 20 May 1943
- Launched
- 3 May 1944
- Commissioned
- 28 June 1944
- Fate
- Captured on 12 April 1945 in the Irish Sea by RN frigates HMS Loch Glendhu (K619) and HMS Loch More (K639) at 53, but sunk the following day when being towed (1945)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 747 long tons (759 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 846 long tons (860 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-1024 was a Type VIIC/41 submarine in service with the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid at Blohm & Voss AG, Hamburg on 20 May 1943. She entered service on 28 June 1944, having been launched on 3 May 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 846 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 288 days of the Second World War.
She was captured on 12 April 1945.
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-1017
- German submarine U-1018
- German submarine U-1021
- German submarine U-1022
- German submarine U-1023
- 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-1024 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Darkone — CC BY-SA 2.0 — Wikimedia Commons