Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Kriegsmarine — Submarine

German submarine U-2323

Type XXIII submarine

German submarine U-2323
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Service

  1. Kriegsmarine as U-232318 July 1944 — 26 July 19448 days of the war
Type XXIII submarine Particulars
Name
U-2323
Builder
Deutsche Werft, Hamburg
Ordered
20 September 1943
Laid down
11 April 1944
Launched
31 May 1944
Commissioned
18 July 1944
Fate
Sunk on 26 July 1944 (1944)
Status
Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced
230 long tons (234 t)
Displacement, submerged
254 long tons (258 t)
Length
34.68 m (113.8 ft)
Beam
3.02 m (9.9 ft)
Draught
3.66 m (12 ft)
Speed
9.7 knots (18 km/h, 11.2 mph)
Range
2,600 nmi (4,815 km)
Complement
14

U-2323 was a Type XXIII submarine of the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid at Deutsche Werft, Hamburg on 11 April 1944. Launched on 31 May 1944, she entered service on 18 July 1944.

She was one of 62 ships of her class. The class followed the Type II submarine (Conventional coastal submarine) and was succeeded by the Type 201 coastal submarine.

The boat displaced 230 long tons surfaced and 254 long tons submerged. She measured 34.7 m (114 ft) long with a beam of 3.0 m (10 ft). Her designed speed was 9.7 knots, and she carried a complement of 14.

She was in commission for 8 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 26 July 1944, at 54°23′N 10°11′E. 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
  • 1 × MWM RS134S 6-cylinder diesel engine, 575 - 630 PS
  • 1 × AEG GU4463-8 double-acting electric motor, 580 PS
  • 1 × BBC CCR188 electric creeping motor, 35 PS
Armament
  • 2 bow torpedo tubes
  • 2 torpedoes

Sister ships

37 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from German submarine U-2323 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Unknown author — This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project . The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive — CC BY-SA 3.0 de — Wikimedia Commons