U 149

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U 149
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Type : II D
Field Post Number : M 16 105
Shipyard: German works , Kiel
Construction contract: September 25, 1939
Build number: 278
Keel laying: May 25, 1940
Launch: October 19, 1940
Commissioning: November 13, 1940
Commanders:
  • November 13, 1940 - November 30, 1941
    Lieutenant Horst Höltring
  • December 1, 1941 - July 31, 1942
    Kptlt.Rolf Borchers
  • August 1, 1942 - May 14, 1944
    First Lieutenant Adolf-Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Equord
  • May 15, 1944 - May 8, 1945
    Oblt.zS Helmut Plohr
Calls: 1 company
Sinkings:

1 submarine (206 t)

Whereabouts: when on December 21, 1945 Operation Deadlight sunk

U 149 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 May 25, 1940, the launch on October 19, 1940. The commissioning under Oberleutnant zur See Horst Höltring finally took place on November 13, 1940.

After its commissioning on November 13, 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 , it was used from June 22, 1941 to August 31, 1941 as a front boat of this flotilla. After active service , from September 1, 1941 to May 1945, the U 149 came back as a school boat to the 22nd U-Flotilla in Gotenhafen or Wilhelmshaven . Like most German submarines of its time, the U 149 also had a boat emblem. The crew chose a hunter who rides a wild boar after the chief engineer killed a wild boar near Gotenhafen.

Use statistics

Commander Höltring undertook with U 149 a patrol where he was a submarine with 206 t sink.

First venture

The boat left Gotenhafen on June 18, 1941 at 9.15 a.m. and returned there on July 11, 1941 at 7.15 a.m. On this 24-day and 989 nm over and 843 nm underwater expedition into the Baltic Sea off Ösel , Dagö and Hangö , a submarine with 206 t was sunk.

On June 27, 1941, the Soviet submarine M-101 ( Lage ), measured at 206 t, was sunk by a torpedo hit.

Whereabouts

U 149 was sunk by the Polish destroyer ORP Piorun on December 21, 1945 at 03.35 a.m. on the way to Operation Deadlight , towed by HMS Cawsand Bay , after the tug connection was broken by artillery fire . The position was 56 ° 4 ′  N , 9 ° 35 ′  W in marine grid reference AM 5243.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , page 63

literature

  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .

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