U 3024

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U 3024
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Type : XXI
Field Post Number : M-50 010
Shipyard: Deschimag ( AG Weser ), Bremen
Construction contract: November 6, 1943
Build number: 1183
Keel laying: October 14, 1944
Launch: December 6, 1944
Commissioning: January 13, 1945
Commanders:

January 13, 1945 to May 3, 1945
OblzS.dR Ferdinand Blaich

Flotilla:

January 13, 1945 to May 3, 1945 Training boat 4th U-Flotilla , Stettin

Calls: no ventures
Sinkings:

no depressions

Whereabouts: Blasted by the crew themselves on May 3, 1945 near Neustadt in Holstein . Wreck later lifted and broken up.

U 3024 was a German type XXI submarine ofthe former German Navy in World War II .

Construction and commissioning

The Kriegsmarine commissioned U 3024 on November 6, 1943 from the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen. This construction contract included 68 boats of the submarine class XXI, it was later expanded to 88 boats. By the end of the war, the Deschimag shipyard had delivered a total of 41 boats of this submarine class to the Navy. The keel of U 3024 was laid on October 14th with hull number 1183. First lieutenant at sea in the reserve Ferdinand Blaich put the boat into service on January 13, 1945. The 32-year-old Blaich had completed his submarine training in the summer of 1943 and since then has served as a written officer in the warship construction training department in Bremen. From April 1944 to January 1945, Blaich completed a number of courses and a building instruction on U 3024 , which became his first submarine command. The emblem of the boat was a penguin on a blue background.

history

From January 13th, U 3024 belonged to the 4th U-Flotilla , a training flotilla for U-boats in transit, which was stationed in Stettin. The boat moved accordingly across the Kiel Canal to the sea area near Swinoujscie , where Commander Blaich undertook training trips to train the crew and to retract the boat.

Rainbow command

U 3024 was sunk by its own crew off Neustadt on May 3, 1945 . This sinking took place on the sinking order of the flotilla commander of the 25th U-Flotilla Corvette Captain Wilhelm Schulz which he formulated on April 29, 1945 as part of the self- sinking of the German submarines in accordance with the rainbow order . At the end of April, all submarines of the Kriegsmarine were divided into three groups by the Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg . U 3024 was assigned to the "People's List III" - the group of submarines that were no longer eligible for use at the front. The boat arrived in Travemünde on April 29 and received Schulz's two-page written order containing detailed instructions for sinking the boat and describing the signal at which the sinking should take place. Three days later, U 3024 drove to Neustadt with a fuselage crew. Schulz's order contained precise information about the type of sinking, according to which the valves should first be opened and the boat flooded with water. By thus introduced sinking of the boat bearing should be central water bombs are detonated. However, this method led to accidents, which is why some crews opted for alternative methods, including destruction through the detonation initiated by the on-board torpedoes - for example in the case of U 3025 .

Sinking

When the torpedoes of U 3024 detonated, the boat was lying in the Neustädter Bucht next to U 3014 , whose hull crew had already left the boat, while some members of the U 3024 sinking command were still on the upper deck. Without consulting the commander of U 3014 , who had assumed that both boats were to be sunk by floods, the U 3024 sinking command detonated two torpedoes in the bow of the boat, which destroyed U 3024 and sank. The U 3014 and a launch that were supposed to receive both sinking commands were also sunk by the pressure wave. U 3024 sank at position 54 ° 05.20 N / 10 ° 48 'E. It was lifted and scrapped after the war.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , pp. 210-216.
  2. ↑ a b Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906-1966. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 , page 291
  3. ↑ The warship construction training departments of the Navy organized the instruction of the officers on board with regard to their future submarines during the construction phase - the so-called construction instruction .
  4. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 , p. 30.
  5. ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 180.
  6. ^ Eckard Wetzel: U 2540. The submarine at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. 1996, pp. 130-138.
  7. ↑ The on-board artillery was to be dismantled as instructed and brought ashore for use in the war; this did not apply to torpedoes.
  8. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 4: German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 , p. 362.

literature

  • Eckard Wetzel: U 2540. The submarine at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-556-3 .