U 1107
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| Type : | VII C / 41 |
| Field Post Number : | M 26-199 |
| Shipyard: | North Sea Works , Emden |
| Construction contract: | April 2, 1942 |
| Build number: | 229 |
| Keel laying: | August 28, 1943 |
| Launch: | June 30, 1944 |
| Commissioning: | August 8, 1944 |
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| Calls: | 1 patrol |
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2 ships (15,209 GRT) |
| Whereabouts: | Sunk on April 30, 1945 in the Bay of Biscay west of Brest . |
U 1107 was a German class VII C / 41 submarine that was used in World War II . It was also one of ten German submarines that had the anti-sonar coating " Alberich ". The other boats were U 67 , U 247 , U 470 , U 480 , U 485 , U 486 , U 999 , U 1105 and the training boats UD 4 and U 11 , the latter of which tested the predecessor of the Alberich anti-sonar skin, called "Fafnir" .
The submarine
U 1107 was commissioned on April 2nd, 1942, together with U 1108 , U 1109 and U 1110 , from the Emden North Sea Works . The keel laying as new building 229 was started on August 28, 1943 and the launch took place on June 30, 1944. The commissioning of the submarine under First Lieutenant Fritz Parduhn, naval officer year 1937, took place on August 8, 1944. The boat was Subordinated to the 8th U-Flotilla in Danzig as a training boat until February 1945 , where the crew of the boat was trained and intensive tests were carried out with the Alberich rubber skin. After completing training at the AGRU Front, TEK and UAK, it was subordinated to the 11th U-Flotilla as a front boat with effect from February 16, 1945 . In addition, the boat received a tower conversion IV with the typical anti-aircraft armor of a Type VII CU boat from 1944/1945 and a snorkel .
commander
Fritz Parduhn was born on November 27, 1918 in Apen . He belonged to the officers' crew 37b and between May and July 1944 was a commanding student on Lieutenant Thienemann's U 682 . After completing his training on board the U 682, he went to Emden for the construction instruction of his U 1107 , where he completed it on August 7, 1944. On his first patrol with U 1107, he sank the last convoy ships of the Second World War.
Use statistics
Relocation trip
On March 23, 1945 at 8:30 p.m., U 1107 left the port of Kiel behind and anchored in Schilksee , where it waited for an escort, before joining with U 234 under Lieutenant Johann-Heinrich Fehler and U 1274 under Lieutenant at sea Hans-Hermann Fitting moved on to Horten . After arriving in Horten on March 27, 1945, the last tests were carried out with the Alberich skin and trials with the snorkel.
First patrol
The boat left Horten on March 29, 1945 and moved to U-base Kristiansand , where it arrived a day later, but did not stay long because it left again at 7:40 p.m. on the same day. U 1107 was then at sea for 31 days, the areas of operation were the North Atlantic , the English Channel and the Biscay . On April 18, at 10:15 a.m., Lieutenant Parduhn sighted the convoy HX-348 and fired a torpedo fan and sank the 7,181 GRT US Liberty freighter Cyrus H. McCormick and the 8,028 GRT British tanker Empire Gold .
loss
On April 30, 1945, Lt. FG Lake, pilot of the Catalina R of the US Navy Squadron VP-63, west of Brest, the wake of a snorkel head. As the flying boat approached, the snorkel mast was identified and a volley of depth charges was dropped. After the explosion, wreckage and oil were driven to the surface of the water and later dropped sonar buoys did not detect any more noise. An escort group arriving later was able to use the ASDIC device to determine an object lying on the seabed. A sample of the floating diesel oil was taken, which was later assigned to a German submarine. This boat was most likely U 1107 . It was a total loss with 37 dead.
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 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ An official crew list for U 1107 was not found. Only 37 men could be identified.