Kriegsmarine — Submarine
German submarine U-1025
Service
- as U-102512 April 1945 — 30 April 194516 days of the war
German submarine U-1025
Particulars
- Name
- U-1025
- Builder
- Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Ordered
- 13 June 1942
- Laid down
- 3 June 1943
- Launched
- 24 May 1944
- Commissioned
- 12 April 1945
- Decommissioned
- 30 April 1945
- Fate
- Scuttled on 5 May 1945 (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)
- Complement
- 44
- Main gun
- 88 mm (3.5 in)
U-1025 was a submarine built for the Kriegsmarine. Blohm & Voss, Hamburg laid her keel on 3 June 1943. She entered service on 12 April 1945, having been launched on 24 May 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 16 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 30 April 1945.
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
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-1025 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Darkone — CC BY-SA 2.0 — Wikimedia Commons