U 1232
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| Type : | IX C / 40 |
| Field Post Number : | M-49 757 |
| Shipyard: | Deutsche Werft AG , Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | October 14, 1941 |
| Build number: | 395 |
| Keel laying: | April 14, 1943 |
| Launch: | December 20, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | March 8, 1944 |
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| Calls: | 1 patrol |
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| Whereabouts: | Decommissioned on April 27, 1945 in Wesermünde. Awarded war booty in England in May and sunk in the North Sea en route to Operation Deadlight . |
U 1232 was a German Type IX C / 40 long-range submersible of the Kriegsmarine , which was used in the North Atlantic during World War II .
The boat
The boat was ordered on October 14, 1941 from the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg-Finkenwärder as the 84th unit of class IX C / 40. The keel was laid as the new building 95 on April 14, 1943, the launch on December 20, 1943 and the commissioning under Captain Kurt Dobratz on March 8, 1944. The boat had an emblem on the tower and on the ship's cap: it was on the tower Word HALIFAX , while a leaping tiger was wielded on the hat . The word HALIFAX referred to the submarine's area of operation, the Saint Lawrence River off Halifax , Canada . The submarine was equipped with an enlarged bridge, a 3.7 cm anti-aircraft gun , two 2 cm twin anti-aircraft guns and a snorkel before the first patrol.
Commanders
- Kurt Dobbratz was born in Stettin on April 9, 1904 , and joined the Reichsmarine in 1922 . On March 1, 1935, he switched to the newly founded Luftwaffe and was, among other things, squadron captain of the 8th squadron of the combat squadron 255 , as well as group commander of the III. Group of Kampfgeschwaders 51 , Group II of Lehrgeschwaders 1 and Group I of Kampfgeschwader 26 . On March 31, 1943, he returned to the Navy as a colonel and took over as a sea captain on March 8, 1944 U 1232.
- Götz Roth first lieutenant at sea
Use statistics
Relocation trip
U 1232 left the port of Kiel on October 28, 1944 at 6:00 a.m. and moved to the Horten naval base in order to carry out various exercises with the new snorkel in the Oslo fjord. The submarine docked in Horten three days later at 10:20 a.m.
First and only patrol
After U 1232 left Horten on November 10, 1944, it first moved to the Kristiansand U base , where new additions were made. On November 12th, the submarine left Kristiansand for the first patrol. First the boat operated in the North Atlantic as a weather boat (as well as U 877 , among others ) before it was ordered to the West Atlantic and off Halifax. On these 93 days there were patrols , and Captain Dobratz succeeded in sinking 3 merchant ships (on January 4th the Norwegian Polarland with 1,591 GRT and on January 14th the two British motor tankers Athelviking with 8,779 GRT and British Freedom with 6,985 GRT), the damage to a motor tanker (on January 4th the Canadian Nipiwan Park with 2,373 GRT) and the total loss of a merchant ship (on January 14th the American Martin Van Buren with 7,176 GRT). Overall, Captain Dobratz achieved the destruction of 26,904 GRT. On February 14, 1945, U 1232 entered Kristiansand again. From there, the boat later moved to Flensburg and Wesermünde.
loss
Since the damage that U 1232 received during the patrol was irreparable (severe damage to the bulwark, periscopes and radio mast), the submarine was decommissioned on April 27 in Wesermünde . The Allies still found the boat in Wesermünde in May, where it was awarded to Great Britain as spoils of war. But on the way to Operation Deadlight, the submarine sank in the North Sea west of Heligoland at position 54 ° 11.02 'N - 07 ° 24.07' W. It still seems to be there.
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. 172.
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV, Douglas G. Stankey: Air Force Officer Career Summaries, Section A-F. (PDF) (No longer available online.) 2016, pp. 545–546 , archived from the original on December 28, 2016 ; accessed on January 28, 2017 (English).