U 192
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| Type : | IX C / 40 |
| Field Post Number : | M-50 188 |
| Shipyard: | Deschimag ( AG Weser ), Bremen |
| Construction contract: | November 4th 1940 |
| Build number: | 1038 |
| Keel laying: | November 27, 1941 |
| Launch: | July 30, 1942 |
| Commissioning: | November 16, 1942 |
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| Calls: | 1 company |
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| Whereabouts: | Sunk on May 6, 1943 in the North Atlantic south of Cape Farvel . |
The U 192 was a German long-range submarine of the type IX C / 40 , which was used in World War II .
The boat
The construction contract for U 192 was awarded to the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen on November 4, 1942 and laid on keel on November 27, 1941 under the name Neubau 1038 . The launch took place on July 30, 1942 and the commissioning under Oberleutnant zur See Werner Happe, born in 1936, took place on November 16, 1942. The emblem of the boat was an unknown city coat of arms with a red and white checkered inner coat of arms, a red and silver striped coat of arms and a blue, red and green crest. After its commissioning, U 192 belonged to the 4th U-Flotilla , like many other Type IX U-Boats , as a training boat and carried out various training exercises with the U-Boat Acceptance Command, Torpedo Test Command, with the 25th U-Flotilla and until April 12, 1943 27th U-Flotilla and the AGRU Front before it was subordinated to the 10th U-Flotilla stationed in Lorient as a front boat.
Use statistics
The submarine left Kiel on April 13, 1943 at 8:00 a.m. for the first and only operation. First, U 192 moved to the Kristiansand U base to take over fuel and water , where U 192 arrived on April 15 at 2:30 a.m. without incident. After completion of the takeover, the submarine sailed into its areas of operation in the North Atlantic , the areas southeast of Greenland and east of Newfoundland . It operated together with the submarine groups Meise, Star and Fink, but on this 23-day voyage it was unable to sink or damage any ships before it sank .
Whereabouts
On May 6, 1943 south of Cape Farewell had U 192 to the convoy tacked ONS 5 than from ASDIC the British corvette HMS Loosetriefe (K.105) located, with depth charges was attacked and eventually sunk. According to current research, the fact that U 192 was sunk by depth charges from the British corvette HMS Pink (K.137) on May 5, 1943 is incorrect, as HMS Pink attacked Lieutenant Rolf Mankes' U 358 on that day , but U 358 escaped without damage. It was a total loss with 55 dead.
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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The construction contract also included the boats U 189 , U 190 , U 191 , U 193 , U 194 , U 195 , U 196 , U 197 , U 198 , U 199 and U 200
- ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 71.