Type | IIB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ordered | 2 Feb 1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laid down | 21 Apr 1936 | F. Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel (werk 554) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Launched | 24 Sep 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commissioned | 10 Oct 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Career 19 patrols |
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| Successes | 1 ship sunk, total tonnage 961 GRT 5 warships sunk, total tonnage 571 tons 1 ship damaged, total tonnage 7,661 GRT 1 ship a total loss, total tonnage 7,886 GRT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fate | Scuttled on 25 Aug, 1944 at Konstanza, Black Sea, in position 44.12N, 28.41E. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
19.18 hours, off Poti, Georgia: U-24 fired a G7e torpedo at Soviet M/S trawler T-492 which passed beneath its target below the bridge. The trawler then forced U-24 to dive with gunfire. U-24 scored a hit at 21.37 hrs, but the torpedo was a dud. After U-24 had fired and missed with her last torpedo at 00.38 hrs on 6 November, the boat surfaced and exchanged fire with the 20mm AA gun, which malfunctioned shortly afterwards, forcing U-24 to break off the attack with light machine gun damage to the conning tower. (Sources: Ritschel)
29 Nov 1942
While patrolling in the Black Sea, Turkish coastal artillery fired 3 rounds at U-24, forcing her to dive. The commander stated that the boat was 7 or 8 nautical miles away from the Turkish coast at the time.
27 May 1944
The boat fought a surface battle with 2 Soviet patrol boats SW of Poti in the Black Sea. Casualties were 1 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 -
U-boat Emblems
We have 5 emblem entry for this boat! See the emblem page for this boat or view each one below.
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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.