U-24

Type

IIB

 
Ordered2 Feb 1935
Laid down21 Apr 1936 F. Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel (werk 554)
Launched24 Sep 1936
Commissioned10 Oct 1936 
Commanders
3 Jul 1937 - 30 Sep 1937  Oblt. Heinz Buchholz
8 Oct 1937 - 17 Oct 1939  Kptlt. Udo Behrens
18 Oct 1939 - 29 Nov 1939   Harald Jeppener-Haltenhoff
30 Nov 1939 - 21 Aug 1940   Udo Heilmann
22 Aug 1940 - 10 Mar 1941  Ltn. Dietrich Borchert
11 Mar 1941 - 31 Jul 1941   Helmut Hennig
1 Aug 1941 - 5 May 1942  Oblt. Hardo Rodler von Roithberg
14 Oct 1942 - 17 Nov 1942  Oblt. Klaus Petersen
18 Nov 1942 - 15 Apr 1943  Oblt. Clemens Schöler
16 Apr 1943 - 7 Apr 1944  Kptlt. Klaus Petersen
Jul, 1944 - 25 Aug 1944   Dieter Lenzmann
7 Apr 1944 - Jul, 1944  Oblt. Martin Landt-Hayen
Career
19 patrols
1 Oct 1936-1 Aug 1939  3. Flottille (rb)
1 Sep 1939-17 Oct 1939  3. Flottille (front boat)
18 Oct 1939-31 Dec 1939  1. Flottille (school boat)
1 Jan 1940-30 Apr 1940  1. Flottille (front boat)
1 May 1940-30 Jun 1940  1. U-Ausbildungsflottille (school boat)
1 Jul 1940-30 Apr 1942  21. Flottille (school boat)
1 Oct 1942-25 Aug 1944  30. Flottille (front boat)
Successes1 ship sunk for a total of 961 GRT
5 warships sunk for a total of 571 tons
1 ship damaged for a total of 7,661 GRT
1 ship a total loss for a total of 7,886 GRT
Fate

Scuttled on 25 Aug, 1944 at Konstanza, Black Sea, in position 44.12N, 28.41E.

See the 8 ships hit by U-24 - View the 19 war patrols

Raised by the USSR in early 1945. Sunk by the Soviet submarine M-120 on 26 May, 1947 off Sevastopol (also sunk that same day was the former U-18).

Attacks on this boat

5 Nov 1942
At 19.18 hours, the boat fired a G7e torpedo at the Soviet M/S trawler T-492 off Poti, but the torpedo passed underneath the bridge. The vessel then forced U-24 to dive by gunfire and was hit by a dud at 21.37 hours. After its last torpedo missed at 00.38 hours on 6 November, the boat surfaced and attacked with the 20mm AA gun but it malfunctioned shortly afterwards, so the Germans had to break off the attack with light machine-gun damage to its conning tower. (Sources: Ritschel)

29 Nov 1942
The boat was attacked in the Black Sea by three rounds from Turkish (!) shore-based guns. The boat dived. The commander stated that the boat was 7 or 8 nautical miles away from the Turkish coast.

27 May 1944
The boat fought a surface battle with 2 Soviet patrol boats. The U-boat lost 1 man dead and 2 wounded. [Matrosenobergefreiter Johann Wölbitsch]

3 recorded attacks on this boat.

Men lost from the boat

27 May 1944
The boat fought a surface battle with 2 Soviet patrol boats. The U-boat lost 1 man dead and 2 wounded. [Matrosenobergefreiter Johann Wölbitsch]

  Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -


We have emblem entries for this boat!

You can view the emblems here. (The emblem on the left is not the emblem for this boat).



U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2
Wynn, Kenneth


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Books dealing with this subject include:

German U-Boat Losses During World War II. Niestle, Axel, 1998.
Hitler's U-boat War. Blair, Clay, 1996.
Hitler's U-boat War, Vol II. Blair, Clay, 1998.
Okrety plyna po ladzie. Piwowoñski, Jan, 1959.
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1. Wynn, Kenneth, 1998.
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2. Wynn, Kenneth, 1998.


There was another U-24 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 24 May 1913 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 6 Dec 1913. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about the U 24 during WWI.