Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Kriegsmarine — Submarine

German submarine U-2342

Type XXIII submarine

German submarine U-2342
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Service

  1. Kriegsmarine as U-23421 November 1944 — 26 December 194455 days of the war
Type XXIII submarine Particulars
Name
U-2342
Builder
Deutsche Werft, Hamburg
Ordered
20 September 1943
Laid down
29 August 1944
Launched
13 October 1944
Commissioned
1 November 1944
Fate
Sunk by mine on 26 December 1944
By mine (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-2342 was a Type XXIII submarine built for the Kriegsmarine. Deutsche Werft, Hamburg laid her keel on 29 August 1944. Launched on 13 October 1944, she entered service on 1 November 1944.

62 ships of the class were built. 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 55 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 26 December 1944 by mine, at 54°01′N 14°20′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-2342 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