U 146

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U 146
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Type : II D
Field Post Number : M 28 136
Shipyard: German works , Kiel
Construction contract: September 25, 1939
Build number: 275
Keel laying: March 30, 1940
Launch: September 21, 1940
Commissioning: October 30, 1940
Commanders:
  • October 30, 1940 - April 6, 1941
    Lieutenant Eberhard Hoffmann
  • April 7, 1941 - August 26, 1941
    Oberleutnant zur See Otto Ites
  • August 27, 1941 - October 1941
    Oblt.zS Ewald Hülsenbeck
  • October 1941 - June 1942
    Oblt.zS Wilhelm Grimme
  • June 1942 - August 1942
    Oblt.zS Gerth Gemeiner
  • September 8, 1942 - November 1, 1942
    Lt.zS Jürgen Nissen
  • November 2, 1942 - July 11, 1943
    Oblt.zS Erich Hilsenitz
  • July 12, 1942 - December 30, 1944
    Oblt.zS Herbert Waldschmidt
  • December 31, 1944 - March 9, 1945
    Oblt.zS Helmut Wüst
  • March 10, 1945 - May 5, 1945
    Oblt.zS Carl Schauroth
Calls: 2 patrols
Sinkings:

1 ship (3,496 GRT)

Whereabouts: self-sunk on May 5, 1945 ( rainbow order )

U 146 was a German submarine from type II D , which in World War II by the German navy was used.

history

The order for the boat was awarded to the shipyard Deutsche Werke , Kiel , on September 25, 1939 . The keel was laid on March 30, 1940, the launch on September 21, 1940. The commissioning under Lieutenant Eberhard Hoffmann finally took place on October 30, 1940.

After its commissioning on October 30, 1940 to December 31, 1940, the boat belonged to the 1st U-Flotilla in Kiel as a training boat . From January 1, 1941 to June 21, 1941, a school boat in the 22nd U-Flotilla in Gotenhafen , from June 22, 1941 to August 31, 1941, it came as a front boat to the 3rd U-Flotilla in Kiel or La Rochelle . After active service , from September 1, 1941 to May 1945, the U 146 came again as a school boat to the 22nd U-Flotilla in Gotenhafen or Wilhelmshaven .

U 145 undertook two enemy voyages during its service, during which it was able to sink a ship with 3,496 GRT.

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First patrol

The boat was launched on 17 June 1941 at 4.30 am from Kiel, and ran on 10 July 1941 at 12.00 in mountains one. A ship with 3,496 GRT was sunk on this 24-day, 3,654 nm above and 201 nm underwater expedition in the North Atlantic , northwest of the Hebrides .

June 28, 1941: sinking of the Finnish steamer Pluto ( Lage ) with 3,496 GRT. The steamer was sunk by a torpedo. He had loaded 4,000 tons of grain , 1,114 tons of coal and 237 tons of oil and was on his way from Buenos Aires via New York City and Kirkwall to Petsamo . There were 12 dead and 18 survivors.

The boat ran on July 11, 1941 from Bergen via Kristiansand to Kiel, where it moored on July 14, 1941.

Second patrol

The boat left Kiel on July 26, 1941 at 4.45 a.m. and entered Elsinore on July 26, 1941 . It left there again on August 9, 1941 at 11.30 a.m., and arrived in Kiel on August 11, 1941 at 1.50 a.m. No ships were sunk or damaged during this 17-day operation in the Baltic Sea .

Whereabouts

The boat was self- sunk by its crew on May 5, 1945 in Wilhelmshaven in the west chamber of the IV entrance (Raederschleuse) 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 .

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 , pp. 53, 70, 81, 108, 214, 264, 310.
  • 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 , pp. 34, 190.
  • 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 , p. 387.