U 1002
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.svg) Forest coat of arms . The coat of arms of U 455 , U 1002 and U 2520 |
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| Type : | VII C / 41 |
| Field Post Number : | M 52-880 |
| Shipyard: | Blohm + Voss , Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | October 14, 1941 |
| Build number: | 202 |
| Keel laying: | January 4, 1943 |
| Launch: | October 6, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | November 30, 1943 |
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| Calls: | 1 company |
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| Whereabouts: | Surrenders in Bergen on May 9, 1945 . After Lochryan and transferred on 13 December, 1945 when operation Dead Light in position 56 ° 10 ' N , 10 ° 5' W sunk. |
U 1002 was a Germanclass VII C / 41 submarine that was used in World War II .
The boat
The construction contract was awarded to Blohm + Voss in Hamburg on October 14, 1941 . The keel was laid under the designation "Neubau 202" on January 4, 1943, the launch took place on October 6, 1943, and on November 30, 1943 the commissioning took place under Oberleutnant zur See Albrecht Schubart. Oberleutnant Schubart commanded the boat until July 6, 1944, before he was replaced by Oberleutnant Hans-Heinz Boos.
Mission history
The boat left Kiel on February 9, 1945 and moved together with the U 260 , U 681 and U 1169 to the Horten underground base in Norway , where all the boats arrived on February 13, 1945 and then various tests in the Oslo Fjord performed with the snorkel mast .
On February 20, U 1002 moved to Kristiansand , where some additions were made again before the boat left for its first patrol. On the 48 day long voyage, U 1002 operated in the North Atlantic and at the western exit of the English Channel , but no enemy units could be sunk or damaged.
Whereabouts
Like the other German submarines that were lying in Norwegian ports at the end of the war, U 1002 was also handed over to the Allies on May 9th. These transferred it on May 30th via Scapa Flow and the port of Londonderry in Lisahally in Northern Ireland to Loch Ryan in Scotland . The boat was towed by the British naval tug Prosperous on December 13 and brought to the sinking area, where it was finally sunk by a torpedo from the British submarine Tantivy .
literature
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 .
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .
Web links
- U 1002 on ubootarchiv.de
- The Type VIIC / 41 boat U 1002 at uboat.net
- U 1002 on u-historia.com (span.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ It is not certain whether the coat of arms was used by Forst. According to the German U-Boat Archive in Cuxhaven-Altenbruch, Hans im Glück carried it out on the tower.
- ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 161.
- ↑ In addition to U 1002 , the construction contract also included U 995 , U 996 , U 997 , U 998 , U 999 , U 1000 , U 1001 , U 1003 , U 1004 , U 1005 and U 1006 of type VII C / 41.