U 1004
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| Type : | VII C / 41 |
| Field Post Number : | 54 101 |
| Shipyard: | Blohm & Voss , Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | October 14, 1941 |
| Build number: | 204 |
| Keel laying: | January 15, 1943 |
| Launch: | October 27, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | December 16, 1943 |
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| Calls: | Two ventures |
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A ship with 1,313 GRT and a warship with 980 t sunk |
| Whereabouts: | Surrenders on May 9, 1945 in Bergen, Norway. Transferred from Bergen to Scapa Flow and later to Loch Ryan and sunk in Operation Deadlight . |
U 1004 was a German type VII C / 41 submarine that was used by the Navy in the North Atlantic during World War II .
Construction and technical data
The building contract for the boat was given to the Hamburg-based Blohm & Voss shipyard on October 14, 1941 . This was the twelfth construction contract from the Kriegsmarine to this shipyard and included twelve boats from the VII C / 41. The Hamburg shipyard had an efficient series production. U 1004 was part of the U 991 to U 1032 submarine series . Blohm & Voss delivered a total of 27 Type VII C / 41 boats to the Navy in 1943 and 1944. A submarine of this type was 67.2 m long and displaced 759 m³ over water. When sailing above water, two 1,400 hp diesel engines propelled the boat to a speed of 17 knots , which corresponds to 31.5 km / h. Two electric motors ensured a speed of 7.6 knots when underwater, that is 14 km / h. The U 1004 was equipped with a snorkel which, on the one hand, ensured the supply of fresh air and, on the other hand, removed the toxic diesel exhaust gases. As a result, such boats had longer dwell times under water. The diesel engines could be used underwater. U 1004 was laid down on January 15, 1943 and launched on October 27, 1943. Oberleutnant zur See Hartmuth Schimmelpfennig put the boat into service on December 16. A first boat emblem, a white horse that danced on a Reichspfennig, could go back to the name of the commander. Later the blade of a white halberd was the mark of the boat. It was attached to the tower and used by the crew as a hat badge.
Commanders
- Hartmuth Schimmelpfennig was born on October 4, 1919 in The Hague , Netherlands , and entered the Navy on October 9, 1937 as an officer candidate. He was thus a member of crew 37b . On April 1, 1942, he was promoted to first lieutenant. From December 1942 to September 1943, Schimmelpfennig was a watch officer on the VII C boat U 586 . On this boat, Schimmelpfennig made three patrols in the North Sea and several transfer trips in the Baltic Sea and Norwegian waters. He left U 586 in September 1943 for his U-boat commander course, which he completed at the 2nd U-Training Department near Godenstedt and with the 23rd U-Flotilla in Danzig . In November, OltzS Schimmelpfennig took part in the building instruction for U 1004 at the 8th Warship Building Training Department and took command of this boat on December 16 when it was commissioned, which he commanded until January 1945.
- Rudolf Hinz was born on February 22, 1920 in Berlin-Neukölln and joined the Navy on September 16, 1939. He was thus a member of Crew IX / 39. From September 1941 to March 1942, Hinz was the first officer on watch on the VII A boat U 30 , a school boat under the command of First Lieutenant Kurt Baberg . He then followed his commander on the VII C-Boat U 618 on which he made four enemy voyages as 1st Watch Officer from April 1942 to September 1943. In the autumn of 1943 he completed his U-boat commander course with the 23rd U-Flotilla in Danzig. He then served as a shooting instructor in the school association of the higher commander of the torpedo schools . From December 1944 he served with the 11th U-Flotilla in Bergen . In January 1945, OltzS Hinz took command of U 1004 .
history
U 1004 was subordinate to the 31st U-Flotilla in Hamburg until August 31, 1944 . On August 22nd, Commander Schimmelpfennig set out from Kiel on his first patrol in this boat. The boat first drove via Horten to Kristiansand and from here to the intended operational area between the Hebrides and the North Canal . Due to the strong British forces in this sea area known as the “Northern Approaches”, Commander Schimmelpfennig decided against penetrating the Northern Channel and turned back. On October 17, he reported the sinking of a ship which he believed to have identified as the destroyer . U 1004 had shot down an acoustic torpedo in the late afternoon , the detonation of which could be heard after a while. This sinking could not be confirmed. Of the eight boats that operated in the waters around Great Britain during this phase of the submarine war, only one achieved success. One consequence on the part of the submarine command was the replacement of some of the returning commanders. For Schimmelpfennig and U 1004 , the venture ended on October 23, 1944 when they entered Bergen, the base of the 11th U-Flotilla, to which the boat was placed in November. At the same time, Schimmelpfennig's career ended, he was demoted to a seaman and died on April 27, 1945 while on land. In January 1945 Rudolf Hinz took command of U 1004 . He carried out an operation with the boat, on which he attacked the convoy BTC 76 in the English Channel and on February 22nd at 1:29 pm. Uhr the British steam cargo ship Alexander Kennedy with 1313 GRT sunk by an acoustic torpedo. A few minutes later, Himnz shot a double torpedo compartment with LU torpedoes at the Canadian corvette HMCS Trentonian , and sank it. He heard another detonation on a third ship, but this assumed hit was not confirmed. U 1004 returned to Bergen on March 20, 1945 .
Whereabouts
After the surrender, U 1004 initially remained in Bergen, Norway. It was first transferred to Scapa Flow on June 2nd , where it arrived on June 4th. Together with other German submarines, U 1004 and later between June 6th and 8th was transferred to Loch Ryan . The boat was towed into position for sinking by the naval tug HMS Bustler on November 29 , 1945 by artillery fire from the British destroyer HMS Onslaught and the Polish destroyer ORP Pionrun at 56 ° 10 ′ N - 10 ° 05 ′ W sunk in naval grid square AM 5139 at 9:00 a.m.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In addition to U 995 , the famous museum boat at the Laboe naval memorial, it was U 996 , U 997 , U 998 , U 999 , U 1000 , U 1001 , U 1002 and U 1003 .
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 , p. 196.
- ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , p. 228.
- ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 .
- ↑ a b Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , 1997, p. 538.
- ^ Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronicle of the naval war 1939-1945. Manfred Pawlak Verlagsges., Herrsching 1981, ISBN 3-88199-0097 , p. 477.
- ↑ a b Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 3: German submarine successes from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0513-4 , p. 241.
- ↑ C. Blair: The Submarine War. Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942–1945. Heyne, Munich 1999, p. 735.
- ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 4: German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 , p. 377.
literature
- Clay Blair : The Submarine War. Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942–1945. Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-16059-2 .
- 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 .
- Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Maling's German submarines 1939–1945. 4th edition. Koehler, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0826-9 .