U 102 (Navy)

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U 102 (Kriegsmarine)
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Type : VII B
Field Post Number : M 13 990
Shipyard: Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel
Construction contract: December 15, 1937
Build number: 595
Keel laying: May 22, 1939
Launch: March 21, 1940
Commissioning: April 27, 1940
Commanders:

April 27, 1940 - July 1, 1940
Lieutenant Harro von Klot-Heydenfeldt

Calls: 1 company
Sinkings:

1 ship (5,219 GRT)

Whereabouts: sunk on July 1, 1940 in the North Atlantic

U 102 was a German submarine from Type VII B , which in World War II by the German navy was used.

history

The order for the boat was awarded to the Germania shipyard in Kiel on December 15, 1937 . The keel was laid on May 22, 1939, the launch on March 21, 1940, the commissioning under Lieutenant Harro von Klot-Heydenfeldt finally took place on April 27, 1940.

After its commissioning on April 27, 1940, the boat belonged to the 7th U-Flotilla in Kiel as a training boat until June 1940 . After its training, it was part of the 7th U-Flotilla in Kiel as a front boat from June 1940 until its sinking on July 1, 1940.

Use statistics

Commander Harro von Klot-Heydenfeldt led U 102 during his service time on an enterprise on which he sank a ship with 5,219 GRT .

Enterprise

The boat left Kiel on June 22, 1940 and was sunk on July 1, 1940. On this ten-day expedition into the North Atlantic, a ship with 5,219 GRT was sunk off Cape Finisterre.

  • July 1, 1940: sinking of the British steamer Clearton ( Lage ) with 5,219 GRT. The steamer was sunk by two torpedoes . He had loaded 7,320 tons of grain forage and was on the way from Rosario via Freetown to Manchester . The ship was a straggler of convoy SL-36 with 41 ships. There were eight dead and 26 survivors.

Whereabouts

The boat was sunk on July 1, 1940 in the Bay of Biscay during the attack on convoy SL-36 by the British destroyer HMS Vansittart at position 48 ° 33 '  N , 10 ° 26'  W in naval grid square BF 1791 by depth charges. It was a total loss with 43 dead.

literature

  • Clay Blair : The Submarine War. Volume 1: The Hunters. 1939-1942. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-12345-X .
  • Clay Blair: The Submarine War. Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942–1945. Heyne, Munich 1998, 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 .
  • 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 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine 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 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine 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 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 5: The knight's cross bearers of the submarine weapon from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg et al. 2003, ISBN 3-8132-0515-0 .
  • Erich Gröner : Die Handelsflotten der Welt 1942 and supplement 1944. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-469-00552-4 (reprint of the 1942–1943 edition).
  • Erich Gröner: Search list for ship names (= The merchant fleets of the world. Supplementary volume). JF Lehmanns Verlag Munich 1976, ISBN 3-469-00553-2 (reprint of the 1943 edition).
  • Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes Verlag, Graefelfing before Munich 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
  • Alan J. Tennent: British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses. To Axis Submarines 1939-1945. Sutton Publishing Limited, Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7509-2760-7 .

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