U 1103
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| Type : | VII C / 41 |
| Field Post Number : | M 31-936 |
| Shipyard: | North Sea Works , Emden |
| Construction contract: | October 10, 1941 |
| Build number: | 223 |
| Keel laying: | May 26, 1943 |
| Launch: | October 12, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | January 8, 1944 |
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| Calls: | no ventures |
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| Whereabouts: | Handed over to the Allies on May 5, 1945 in Cuxhaven and sunk during Operation Deadlight . |
U 1103 was a German class VII C / 41 submersible , which was used by the Navy as a training boat in the Baltic Sea during World War II .
The boat
U 1103 was commissioned from the Nordseewerke in Emden on October 10, 1941 , as the shipyard's first Type VII C / 41 submarine. The boat was given hull number 223 and was laid down on May 26, 1943 . The launch took place on October 12, 1943 and the commissioning under Lieutenant Captain Hans Bungards on January 8, 1944. The boat did not have its own emblem, but for an unknown period of time it carried the AGRU Front's license plate on the tower. For the next 8 months, the submarine was in front training with the 8th U-Flotilla , a training flotilla , in Danzig , before it was assigned to the 21st U-Flotilla stationed in Gotenhafen in September 1944 as a training boat for later submarine men has been. Kaleun Hans Bungards was replaced on July 3, 1944 by Kaleun Werner Sausmikat from the on-board command, who commanded it until October 8, 1944, before he took over command of the U 774 front boat built at the Wilhelmshaven naval shipyard . U 1103 had been ready for action in Cuxhaven for some time , but was no longer transferred to the front until the end of the war, despite having passed the front-line maturity test.
The end of U 1103
On May 5, 1945, eight submarines of the Kriegsmarine lay in Cuxhaven , the Bremen Type VII C U-boat U 291 under Oberleutnant zur See Hermann Neumeister, the Wilhelmshaven VII C boat U 779 under Oberleutnant zur See Johann Stegmann, the Bremer IX D / 42 Boat U 883 under Oberleutnant zur See Johannes Uebel, U 1103 under Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm Eisele, the Hamburg Type XVII B boats U 1406 under Oberleutnant zur See Werner Klug and U 1407 under Oberleutnant zur See Horst Heitz, as well as the Hamburg Type XXIII boats U 2341 under Oberleutnant zur See Hermann Böhm and U 2356 under Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Hartel. On May 8th, the Danziger VII C boat U 1194 arrived under Oberleutnant zur See Herbert Zeissler and on 9 May the Danziger VII C boat U 1198 under Oberleutnant zur See Gerhard Peters. After the boats were moved to Wilhelmshaven , the assembly point of the remaining submarines, all submarines located there were transferred either to Loch Ryan in Scotland or Lisahally in Northern Ireland and then sunk in Operation Deadlight . On December 28, 1945, U 1103 was selected for sinking. It was towed by the British frigate HMS Cawsand Bay to position 56 ° 03 'N - 10 ° 05' W and sunk on December 30, 1945 at 10:10 am by gunfire from the British destroyer HMS Onslaught .
Web links
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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 166.