U 1303

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U 1303
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Type : VII C / 41
Field Post Number : M 07-970
Shipyard: Flensburg shipbuilding company
Construction contract: April 2, 1942
Build number: 496
Keel laying: April 8, 1943
Launch: February 10, 1944
Commissioning: April 5, 1944
Commanders:
  • April 5, 1944 to April 1945
    Oblt dR Heinz Baum
  • April 1945 to May 5, 1945
    Oblt Helmut Herglotz
Flotilla:

4th U-Flotilla , Stettin
April 5, 1944 - May 5, 1945 in training

Calls: no ventures
Sinkings:

no depressions

Whereabouts: Sunk by the crew themselves on May 5, 1945 in the inner Flensburg Fjord on command of the rainbow .

U 1303 was a German Submarine of the type VII C / 41 in the Second World War .

history

The construction contract for the U 1303 and the sister boats U 1301 , U 1302 and U 1304 was awarded to the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft on April 2, 1942 . U 1303 was on April 8, 1943 laid the keel and ran on 10 February 1944 by the stack. The commissioning under the command of Oberleutnant zur See of the Reserve Heinz Baum took place on April 5, 1944. In April 1945 Oberleutnant Baum and Oberleutnant Herglotz exchanged their boats; Baum received U 290 and Herglotz took over U 1303 . The tower maling of the boat showed a dog with a bone in its mouth with the name "Jim" above it.

Whereabouts

The boat was still in the training phase until May 5, 1945 and was sunk on that day in the Kupfermühlen Bay near Wassersleben by opening the flood valves by its own crew in order to prevent the Allies from accessing it . The wreck was lifted in 1948 and scrapped by 1953.

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Baum was previously the commander of the U 1197 boat , which he handed over to Lieutenant Kurt Lau on March 20, 1944.
  2. ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 173.
  3. ↑ Also there even sunk have been Type VII C boats used U 290 , U 717 , U 1132 , U 1161 , and the type VII C / 41 boats U 827 , U 999 and U 1304 .

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 .