U 186
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| Type : | IX C / 40 |
| Field Post Number : | 05 693 |
| Shipyard: | Deschimag AG Weser, Bremen |
| Construction contract: | August 15, 1940 |
| Build number: | 1026 |
| Keel laying: | July 27, 1941 |
| Launch: | March 11, 1942 |
| Commissioning: | July 10, 1942 |
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| Calls: | 2 activities |
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Three ships with 18,782 GRT sunk. |
| Whereabouts: | Sunk north of the Azores on May 12, 1943 |
U 186 was a German submarine of the type IX C / 40 , which was used by the Kriegsmarine during the submarine war in World War II in the North Atlantic .
history
The boat was one of a total of 36 type IX C / 40 boats that were built at the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen . The Deschimag had been commissioned to build submarines since 1934, initially bypassing the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . U 186 was part of the 15th construction contract that this shipyard received. It was put into service on July 23, 1942 under the command of Lieutenant Siegfried Hesemann.
On December 31, 1942, Commander Hesemann started his first patrol with this boat from Kiel . The boat operated on this venture west of Ireland and in the sea areas around Greenland and Newfoundland . On March 5, U 186 entered Lorient , the base of the 10th U-Flotilla , to which the boat had belonged since December 1942. On April 17, U 186 left here for its second venture. The boat patrolled the central North Atlantic until it was sunk on May 12, 1943.
Sinking
U 186 was part of a submarine group that attacked the convoy SC 129 on May 11, 1943 according to the pack tactics developed by Karl Dönitz , which was protected by the British B-2 escort group. The British destroyer HMS Hesperus , who belonged to conduct safety of the convoy, felt U 186 after a successful high-frequency direction finding -Peilung with ASDIC and attacked the submarine with depth charges . During the attack, U 186 came to the surface for a short time and broadcast a message, then dived again. The sinking was determined on the basis of floating debris. None of the crew members of U 186 survived the sinking of the boat.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Bernard Ireland: Battle of the Atlantic, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland 2003, ISBN 1-59114-032-3 , page 137
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars , Urbes Verlag, Graefelfing before Munich 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 , page 119
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 .
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