U-24
Type | IIB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ordered | 2 Feb, 1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laid down | 21 Apr, 1936 | Germaniawerft, Kiel (werk 554) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Launched | 24 Sep, 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commissioned | 10 Oct, 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Career | 20 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successes | 1 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 20 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 -
 German U-Boat Losses During World War II Niestle, Axel Buy this title at amazon.co.uk See more sellers |
Books dealing with this subject include: German U-Boat Losses During World War II, Niestle, Axel, 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.