U 1024
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| Type : | VII C / 41 |
| Field Post Number : | M - 39 246 |
| Shipyard: | Blohm & Voss , Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | June 13, 1942 |
| Build number: | 224 |
| Keel laying: | May 20, 1943 |
| Launch: | May 3, 1944 |
| Commissioning: | June 28, 1944 |
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June 28, 1944 to April 12, 1945 |
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| Calls: | 1 company |
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| Whereabouts: | Badly damaged in the Irish Sea on April 12, 1945 (9 dead, 37 prisoners of war), captured by the British and sunk on April 13, 1945 |
U 1024 was a German type VII C / 41 submarine of the German Navy , which was used during the Second World War . On its only venture, it irreparably damaged a merchant ship with 7176 GRT and another merchant ship with 7200 GRT, neither of which resulted in any fatalities. U 1024 was badly damaged on April 12, 1945 in the North Atlantic, whereby 9 crew members - including Commander Hans-Joachim Gutteck - were killed and 37 men were taken prisoner by the British . A British prize squad boarded the submarine and captured secret documents, but the submarine sank while being towed on April 13, 1945.
Construction and equipment
U 1024 had a water displacement of 759 t on the surface and 860 t under water. It was a total of 67.23 m long, 6.2 m wide, 9.6 m high with a 50.5 m long pressure hull and had a draft of 4.74 m. That in the Hamburg shipyard Blohm & Voss built submarine was of two four-stroke diesel engines F46 with 6 cylinders and supercharger of Kiel Germaniawerft with a capacity from 2060 to 2350 kW, with underwater operation with two electric motors GG UB 720/8 of BBC with a power of 550 kW. It had two drive shafts with two 1.23 m tall propellers. The boat was suitable for diving to a depth of 250 m.
The submarine reached speeds of up to 17.7 knots on the surface and up to 7.6 knots under water. When surfaced, the ship could travel up to 8,500 nautical miles at 10 knots, and up to 80 nautical miles submerged at 4 knots. U 1024 was equipped with five 53.3 cm torpedo tubes - four at the bow and one at the stern - and fourteen torpedoes , alternatively 26 TMA or TMB sea mines . It was also equipped with an 8.8 cm SK C / 35 cannon with 220 rounds of ammunition, a 3.7 cm FlaK M42 18/36/37/43 and two 2 cm FlaK C / 30.
The submarine was also equipped with a snorkel that was attached to the location of the on-board gun.
team
The crew strength of the submarine was 44 to 60 men. On his last trip there were 46 men.
Use and end
After its commissioning, U 1024 served under the command of Lieutenant Hans-Joachim Gutteck for the 31st U-Flotilla stationed in Hamburg as a training ship. In February 1945 the submarine was assigned to the 11th submarine flotilla .
The submarine left Kiel on February 21, 1945 and entered Horten in Norway on February 24, 1945 , where combat and snorkelling training took place.
On February 28, 1945, U 1024 left the port of Horten on its first mission, whereby it was refueled again and provisions were made in the night of March 1, 1945 in the port of Kristiansand . It operated in the Irish Sea and on April 7, 1945 damaged the US merchant ship James W. Nesmith from the convoy HX-346 with a torpedo so badly that it had to be abandoned. On April 12, the US merchant ship Will Rogers from the convoy SC-171 was also damaged with a torpedo. There were no fatalities on either of the attacked ships.
On the evening of April 12, 1945, U 1024 by the British frigate Loch Glendhu tracked from the 8th Eskortgruppe and with the newly developed depth charge thrower Squid attacked whose depth charges despite damaged 147B- ASDIC the submarine damaged heavily. The now defenseless submarine had to surface three minutes later and was taken under fire by six British warships. According to survivors, the commander Hans-Joachim Gutteck, who was the first to appear on the bridge, was fatally hit by a grenade, and other crew members also died in the hail of shells. In British reports, however, it is stated that Gutteck was not killed by a British hit, but shot himself. Other men from U 1024 managed to jump into the sea with their life jackets. They were quickly brought on board by the British and brought below deck. When no one aboard the submarine was more the British frigate sent Lochmore a boarding party from which the submarine boarded and captured important documents. The Loch More took the submarine in tow, but the cable broke in the thick fog and U 1024 sank.
Nine men of the U 1024 crew were killed in the shelling before boarding, and 37 men were taken prisoner by the British . U 1024 sank on April 13, in 1945 just after midnight on the position of 53 ° 44 ' N , 4 ° 57' W .
See also
literature
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. Preface by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rohwer, Member of the Presidium of the International Commission on Military History. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 , p. 85.
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: Submarine construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , pp. 156, 223.
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 3: The German submarine successes from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-8132-0513-8 , p. 292.
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: The German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-8132-0514-5 , p. 338.
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maas: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 3: Submarines, auxiliary cruisers, mine ships, net layers. Bernhard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7637-4802-4 .
- Clay Blair : The Submarine War - The Hunted 1942–1945 . Heyne Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-453-16059-2 , pp. 777f.
Web links
- U 1024. Ubootarchiv.de, German U-Boats 1935–1945
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U-1024. Uboat.net
- James W. Nesmith - American Steam merchant. Uboat.net
- Will Rogers - American Steam merchant. Uboat.net
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