Kriegsmarine — Submarine
German submarine U-998
Service
- as U-9987 October 1943 — 27 June 1944264 days of the war
German submarine U-998
Particulars
- Name
- U-998
- Builder
- Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Ordered
- 14 October 1941
- Laid down
- 5 December 1942
- Launched
- 18 August 1943
- Commissioned
- 7 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 27 June 1944
- Fate
- Cannibalized for spare parts and broken up in 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Scrapped
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-998 was a submarine of the Kriegsmarine. Blohm & Voss, Hamburg laid her keel on 5 December 1942. Launched on 18 August 1943, she entered service on 7 October 1943.
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 264 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 27 June 1944.
She was broken up for scrap in 1944.
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
- 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-998 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Darkone — CC BY-SA 2.0 — Wikimedia Commons