U 120 (Navy)
U 120 (Kriegsmarine) ( previous / next - all submarines ) |
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Type : | II B |
Field Post Number : | M 03 700 |
Shipyard: | Flender-Werke , Lübeck |
Construction contract: | August 28, 1937 |
Build number: | 268 |
Keel laying: | March 31, 1938 |
Launch: | March 16, 1940 |
Commissioning: | April 20, 1940 |
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Calls: | no |
Sinkings: |
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Whereabouts: | sunk on May 5, 1945 in Wesermünde itself |
U 120 was a German submarine from Type II B , which in World War II by the German navy was used.
history
The order for the boat was awarded to Flender-Werke , Lübeck , on August 28, 1937 . The keel was laid on March 31, 1938, the launch on March 16, 1940, the commissioning under Oberleutnant zur See Ernst Bauer on April 20, 1940.
After its commissioning as a school boat, the boat belonged to the U-Boat School Flotilla in Kiel , which was renamed the 21st U-Flotilla on July 1, 1940 and relocated to Pillau , and then from March 17, 1945 to May 5, 1945 as Training boat for the 31st U-Flotilla in Hamburg .
U 120 was a pure school and training boat and did not go out to any company.
Whereabouts
The boat was self- sunk by its crew on May 5, 1945 in Wesermünde according to the rainbow order that had existed for a long time, but was canceled by Grand Admiral Dönitz on the evening of May 4, 1945 . The wreck was lifted in 1949 and scrapped in November 1950.
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 .
- Robert M. Browning Jr .: US Merchant Vessel War casualties of World War II. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD 1996, ISBN 1-55750-087-8 .
- 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 .
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes Verlag, Graefelfing before Munich 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
See also
Web links
- u-bootarchiv.de , a detailed site about German submarines (German)