Country: Germany.
Class, [Type]: Type IIB, [SS].

Builder: Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany.
Laid down date: 21 April 1936.
Launch date: 24 September 1936.
Commission date: 10 October 1936.
Decommission date: 25 August 1944.

Displacement ( tons ): 279 surfaced, 328 submerged.
Dimensions ( metres ): 42,7 x 4 x 8,6.
Main machinery: 2 x MWM RS127S diesel engines ( 700 hp ), 2 x SSW PGVV322/26 electric motors ( 402 hp ).
Range ( miles ): 2700 at 8 knots surfaced, 38 at 4 knots submerged.
Speed ( knots ): 13 surfaced, 7 submerged.
Test depth ( m ): 150.
Complement: 24.

Torpedoes: 3 x 1 torpedo tubes ( bow ), ( 5 torpedoes ).
Comment: On August 25 1944, U-24 was scuttled at Constanta, on the Romanian Black Sea coast to prevent the advancing Soviet forces from capturing it.