U 1308
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| Type : | VII C / 41 |
| Field Post Number : | M 49-123 |
| Shipyard: | Flensburg SBG , Flensburg |
| Construction contract: | August 1, 1942 |
| Build number: | F 501 |
| Keel laying: | February 16, 1944 |
| Launch: | November 22, 1944 |
| Commissioning: | January 17, 1945 |
| Commanders: |
Jan. 17, 1945 to May 1, 1945 |
| Flotilla: |
4th U-Flotilla , Stettin |
| Calls: | no ventures |
| Sinkings: |
no depressions |
| Whereabouts: | Sunk by the crew themselves on May 1, 1945 near the submarine base in Warnemünde due to the rainbow order . |
U 1308 was a German submarine of the type VII C / 41 of the former Navy during World War II . It was the last submarine of the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) to beput into service.
history
The boat was commissioned from the Flensburg SBG on August 1, 1942. The keel with hull number 501 was laid on February 16, 1944 and the launch took place on November 22. Oberleutnant zur See Heinrich Besold, Crew 1939, put the boat into service on January 17, 1945. Then the boat, like its sisters U 1301 to U 1307 , was assigned to the 4th submarine flotilla in Stettin for training, but the training could not be completed until the self-sinking according to the rainbow order . The only sign of the boat on the tower was the coat of arms of Besolds Crew X / 39 : a golden anchor and a sword in front of a green oak leaf .
The rainbow command and the U 1308 lift
Since September 1, 1939, the crews of the German warships had been ordered to sink the ship if it threatened to fall into enemy hands. This "rainbow order" was confirmed again for all submarines at the end of April 1945, but was expressly withdrawn by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz on May 4th. As with many submarines of the Kriegsmarine that were not in Norway , U 1308 and its sister boats U 1303 , U 1304 and U 1306 nevertheless acted in accordance with the requirements of the Rainbow Order at the beginning of May. While U 1303 and U 1304 sank themselves in the Kupfermühlen Bay near Wassersleben and U 1306 further outside in the Flensburg Fjord on May 5th, Besold arranged for U 1308 to do so on May 1st near the Warnemünde submarine base. U 1308 lay there on the bottom of the fjord for eight years. However, the People's Navy of the GDR was interested in the old and the Type XXIII boat U 2344 , which sank north of Heiligendamm on February 18, 1945 after colliding with U 2336 with eleven men of the crew, and had both boats lifted. After U 1308 had been made buoyant again, it was towed to the Stralsund shipyard, but it was found irreparable and broken up in 1954.
After it was lifted, U 2344 was brought to the Neptun shipyard in Rostock , where, in addition to the skeletons of five crew members, a 250 cm long and 20 cm wide crack on the starboard side of the hull and a dented tower face were found, which made it impossible to restore the boat. In 1958 this boat was also scrapped; the diesel engine and the electric engine are still on display in the Danish Navy Museum in Stralsund.
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 .
Footnotes
- ^ The sister boats U 1305 , U 1306 and U 1307 were also part of this construction contract.
- ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 174.
- ↑ U 1308 sank at position 54 ° 22.48 'N - 12 ° 04.24'E in naval grid square AO 7837, while U 2344 sank at position 54 ° 17.32' N - 11 ° 46.30'E in naval grid square AO 7852 went down.