Kriegsmarine — Submarine
German submarine U-234
Service
- as U-2342 March 1944 — 20 November 1947549 days of the war
Type X submarine minelayer
Particulars
- Name
- U-234
- Builder
- Germaniawerft, Kiel
- Ordered
- 7 December 1940
- Laid down
- 1 October 1941
- Launched
- 23 December 1943
- Commissioned
- 2 March 1944
- Fate
- Sunk by torpedo from USS Greenfish (SS-351) during trials, 20 November 1947
By torpedo (1947) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,735 long tons (1,763 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,143 long tons (2,177 t)
- Length
- 89.8 m (294.6 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.2 m (30.2 ft)
- Draught
- 4.71 m (15.5 ft)
- Speed
- 17 knots (31.5 km/h, 19.6 mph)
- Range
- 18,450 nmi (34,169 km)
- Complement
- 52
- Main gun
- 105 mm (4.1 in)
U-234 was a submarine of the Type X submarine minelayer built for the Kriegsmarine. Germaniawerft, Kiel laid her keel on 1 October 1941. She entered service on 2 March 1944, having been launched on 23 December 1943.
Her class ran to nine ships.
The boat displaced 1,735 long tons surfaced and 2,143 long tons submerged. She measured 89.8 m (295 ft) long with a beam of 9.2 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 17 knots, and she carried a complement of 52.
Her main battery was one 105 mm (4.1 in) guns.
She was in commission for 549 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 20 November 1947 by torpedo. 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 × supercharged GW F 46 a 9 pu 9 cylinder, four-stroke diesel engines, 4800 PS
- 2 × AEG GU 720/8-287 electric motors, 1100 PS
- Armament
- 2 × 53.3 cm stern torpedo tubes
- 15 × G7e torpedoes
- 66 × SMA mines
- 1 × 10.5 cm SK C/32 naval gun (200 rounds)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from German submarine U-234 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Seaman Harry O'Brien — U.S. National Archives / Record Group 38 [1] — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons