U 184
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Type : | IX C / 40 |
Field Post Number : | 45 477 |
Shipyard: | Deschimag AG Weser, Bremen |
Construction contract: | August 15, 1940 |
Build number: | 1024 |
Keel laying: | June 10, 1941 |
Launch: | February 21, 1942 |
Commissioning: | May 29, 1942 |
Commanders: |
Günther Dangschat |
Flotilla: |
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Calls: | 1 company |
Sinkings: |
1 ship with 3,192 GRT sunk |
Whereabouts: | missing since November 20, 1942 |
U 184 was a submarine of type IX C / 40 , which in the Second World War by the German navy was used. It has been lost since November 20, 1942.
history
U 184 was from the Deschimag AG Weser in Bremen with the hull number 1024 on 10 June 1941 laid Kiel . On February 21, 1942, took place launching . On May 29, 1942, the boat was put into service under Oberleutnant zur See Günther Dangschat. The submarine was given field post number M-45 477. From May 29 to October 31, 1942, the boat and crew were in training. On November 1st, the boat was assigned to the 2nd submarine flotilla in Lorient as the front boat . The first venture began on November 8, 1942 from the Bergen submarine base and was to end in Lorient. The North Atlantic was intended as the operational area. In response to the landing of Allied troops in North Africa as part of Operation Torch , almost all German submarines were ordered from here in the late autumn of 1942 to the sea area off Gibraltar and the Mediterranean . The nine boats remaining in the North Atlantic, two IX boats and seven of the type VII , were not able to form a submarine group according to the pack tactics developed by Karl Dönitz in order to track down and attack convoys. In the course of November, the number of submarines operating in the North Atlantic was increased to 16, which were combined to form the submarine group Kreuzotter . U 184 was one of three IX boats that were assigned to this submarine group. During an attack on convoy ONS 144 between November 16 and 20, Commander Dangschat reported that he had torpedoed six ships and sunk four of them. In retrospect, only one sinking was confirmed: The British steamer Widestone sank on November 17, 1942 at 11:46 p.m. after a torpedo hit.
On November 20, 1942 at 1:12 p.m. the boat made one last radio message off Newfoundland : “No contact. Ousted from remote security. Convoy 1:00 pm in BC 2812. “After that, it was lost.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clay Blair : The U-Boat War, Volume Two: The Hunted 1942-1945 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-16059-2 , page 161 - page 162
- ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 3: German submarine successes from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0513-4 , page 137-page 137
literature
- 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 .