Kriegsmarine — Submarine
German submarine U-1277
Service
- as U-12773 May 1944 — 3 June 1945396 days of the war
German submarine U-1277
Particulars
- Name
- U-1277
- Builder
- Bremer Vulkan AG, Bremen
- Ordered
- 13 June 1942
- Laid down
- 6 August 1943
- Launched
- 18 March 1944
- Commissioned
- 3 May 1944
- Fate
- Scuttled on 3 June 1945 in the North Atlantic off the coast of Portugal near Porto (1945)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 999 long tons (1,015 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,099 long tons (1,117 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-1277 was a submarine of the Kriegsmarine. Bremer Vulkan AG, Bremen laid her keel on 6 August 1943. She entered service on 3 May 1944, having been launched on 18 March 1944.
The boat displaced 999 long tons surfaced and 1,099 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 396 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 3 June 1945, at 41°13′N 8°45′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
Sources
- Facts harvested from German submarine U-1277 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Darkone — CC BY-SA 2.0 — Wikimedia Commons