U 193
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 The sister boat U 190 , it was identical to U 193 |
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| Type : | IX C / 40 |
| Field Post Number : | M-50 201 |
| Shipyard: | AG Weser ( Deschimag ), Bremen |
| Construction contract: | November 4th 1940 |
| Build number: | 1039 |
| Keel laying: | December 22, 1941 |
| Launch: | August 24, 1942 |
| Commissioning: | December 10, 1942 |
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| Calls: | 3 activities |
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1 ship (10,172 GRT) |
| Whereabouts: | Lost since April 23, 1944 after leaving Lorient. |
U 193 was a German long -range submarine of the type IX C / 40 , which was used in World War II .
history
The construction contract for the boat went to AG Weser in Bremen on November 4, 1940 , as the sixteenth unit of the Type IX C / 40. After the preparations, the keel of the boat was laid at Plant 1039 at the end of 1941 and launched after eight months of construction. Two months after the launch and the rest of the equipment, Corvette Captain Hans Pauckstadt put the boat into service with the Navy . With U 193 , Pauckstadt held his sixth and last command on a submarine, which he left after two years to become head of the 8th U-Flotilla, stationed in Danzig as a training flotilla . In addition to U 193, he also commanded : U 18 , U 12 , U 34 , U 30 and U 516 . The boat also had a tower emblem: a blue, white and red shield with a star in the upper left corner. The sentence: Thirst is worse than homesickness was written in black on the white part of the coat of arms. The colors of the coat of arms indicated the flag of Schleswig-Holstein .
Use statistics
1. Company
U 193 left Kiel on May 11, 1943 at 8:00 a.m. for the first patrol. On May 12th, it arrived in Marviken (Norway) at 9 p.m. to replenish fuel and water, and on May 17 the exhaust flap was repaired in Bergen before it finally ran out five days later at 8 p.m. The boat operated during the 69-day voyage in the mid-Atlantic and the Canary Islands before entering Bordeaux on July 23 at 10:00 p.m. without a ship being sunk or damaged. U 193 left Bordeaux on September 21 at 9:00 a.m., together with U 530 (KL Kurt Lange), in order to move to La Pallice for residual equipment , where both boats arrived three days later.
2. Company
U 193 left La Pallice for the second patrol at 6:45 p.m. six days after the rest of the equipment . The areas of operation were the Central Atlantic, the Western Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico . On November 1st, the boat met with the type XIV " Milchkuh " boat U 488 (OL.dR Erwin Bartke), which supplied U 193 with 30 m³ of fuel and provisions for 20 days. On November 13, U 193 and U 488 met again, and U 193 received 68 m³ of fuel and provisions for a further 11 days. On December 3rd, KKpt. Pauckstadt sank his only ship: the US turbine tanker Touche with 10,172 GRT. On this 122-day voyage, the boat was damaged in an Allied air raid on its march back through the Bay of Biscay and fled to El Ferrol in then neutral Spain for repairs. After the return march, the submarine entered Lorient on February 24, 1944. After this voyage, KKpt. Pauckstadt was replaced as commander of U 193 by OL Abel.
3. Company
The boat left for the last patrol on April 23, 1944, but there were no more reports after it left and has since been considered missing.
Whereabouts
Since April 23, 1944, U 193 has been considered missing without ever reporting. The official date of death of the boat was May 6, 1944. The fact that the boat was sunk on April 28, 1944 in the Bay of Biscay west of Nantes by the Leigh-Light equipped Wellington W of the British 612th Squadron turns out to be incorrect according to current investigations because this attack was aimed at the U 802 , which was on the march back . It was a total loss with 59 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
- ^ 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.
- ↑ To Dr. Abel's previous assignment as 1st WO on U 154 : Heinrich Walle : The tragedy of the first lieutenant on the sea Oskar Kusch . Edited on behalf of the Ranke Society, Association for History in Public Life eV and the German Marine Institute by Michael Salewski and Christian Giermann, Stuttgart 1995. ISBN 3-515-06841-4 . [Historical communications / supplement] Historical communications, supplement; 13.