D.K.M. U 2501
1944
(Neptun 1070)
- Class: Type XXI -- 121 submarines of 1943-45
- Displacement: 1,621/1,819 tons
- Dimensions: 251'9" x 21'9" x 20'9"
- Machinery: 2-shaft diesel/electric motors, BHP 4,000/5,000 = 15.5/16 knots; silent creeping electric motors SHP 226 = 5 knots
- Radius: 11,150 miles at 12 knots / 285 miles at 6 knots
- Armament: 4-20 mm A.A. (2x2) guns; 6-21in TT (bow); 23 torpedoes or 17 + 12 mines
- Complement: 57
- Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Laid Down: 3 Apr 1944
- Launched: 12 May 1944
- Commissioned: 17 Jun 1944
- Service: First of the Type XXI boats to be delivered. Ocean-going boat capable of fully-submerged operations using schnorkel and conventional diesel/electric drive. Streamlined hull, all-welded construction, built in eight prefabricated sections to speed assembly. Only two of these boats sailed on combat patrols. U 2501 was in training before being scuttled at Hamburg 2 May 1945.
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