U 1058
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 U 1058 (middle) in the port of Derry |
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | 40 307 |
| Shipyard: | Germania shipyard , Kiel |
| Construction contract: | June 5, 1941 |
| Build number: | 692 |
| Keel laying: | August 2, 1943 |
| Launch: | May 11, 1944 |
| Commissioning: | June 10, 1944 |
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| Calls: | A company |
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no ships sunk or damaged |
| Whereabouts: | capitulated in Norway on April 28th |
U 1058 was a type VII C submarine, the most built submarine class of the Second World War. It was used by the German navy inthe North Atlantic as part of the Second World War .
Construction and technical data
The Kiel Germania shipyard has been building submarines for the German Navy since 1935 - initially in secrecy to circumvent the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . U 1058 belonged to the eleventh construction contract that was awarded to this shipyard by the navy during the Second World War. The order comprised a total of twelve boats, all of the type VII C, also known as the "Atlantic boat". A submarine of this submarine class had a length of 67 m and displaced 865 m³ under water. It was powered by two diesel engines with a speed of 17 knots . Two electric motors ensured a speed of 7.6 knots under water.
Like many boats of its time, U 1058 also had a sign on the tower : A shark in front of a gallows. It was the crew badge of the officers' class from 1939 to which the commander Oberleutnant zur See Hermann Bruder belonged.
Commitment and history
U 1058 belonged to the 5th U-Flotilla until December 31, 1944 and was stationed in Kiel . On January 1, 1945 it was assigned to the 11th U-Flotilla as a front boat. Commander Brother left Kiel by boat at the end of December. The boat first went to Horten , then to Stavanger and finally reached Kristiansand. From here U 1058 left for the first company.
On February 13th, Commander Brother reported that he had torpedoed a 9000 GRT freighter. However, this sinking could not be confirmed. After a patrol in the North Atlantic and the Irish Sea , the boat entered Bergen on March 26th. From here, Commander Brother left on April 28th and handed the boat over to the British armed forces on May 10th in Loch Eriboll .
Whereabouts of the boat
The boat was first interned in the port of Londonderry and then handed over to the Soviet Navy as part of Operation Cabal , where it remained for ten years before it was finally scrapped.
Notes and individual references
- ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 165.
- ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945, The German U-Boat Successes , Mittler, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 , page 317
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 and Son, Hamburg a. a. 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 and Son, Hamburg a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .