U 194
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 The coat of arms of Hanover , the godfather city of U 194 and U 577 |
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| Type : | IX C / 40 |
| Field Post Number : | M-36 350 |
| Shipyard: | AG Weser , Bremen |
| Construction contract: | November 4th 1940 |
| Build number: | 1040 |
| Keel laying: | January 17, 1942 |
| Launch: | September 23, 1942 |
| Commissioning: | January 8, 1943 |
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| Calls: | 1 company |
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| Whereabouts: | Destroyed in an air raid on June 24, 1943 in the North Atlantic. |
U 194 was atype IX C / 40 submarine ofthe former German Navy , which was used in the submarine war of the Second World War .
history
The building contract for U 194 , U 189 , U 190 , U 191 , U 192 , U 193 , U 195 , U 196 , U 197 , U 198 , U 199 and U 200 was given to Bremen on November 4, 1940 by the Navy AG Weser awarded. The keel of "Neubau 1040" was stretched on January 17, 1942 on the slipways of AG Weser and the finished boat was launched on September 23 of the same year. The submarine was put into service by Kapitänleutnant Hermann Hesse, previously in command of the Type VII C boat U 133 . In contrast to all other Type IX C / 40 boats , which were normally equipped with 36 MAK 740 W batteries, U received 194 batteries of the type 50 MAL 760 E. As Maling , the boat carried the city arms of Hanover, the sponsored city of the boat. For the training and instruction of the crew in handling the boat, the OKM placed U 194 under the command of the 4th submarine flotilla stationed in Stettin . Later the boat came to the 10th submarine flotilla in Lorient for active front duty.
Downfall
On June 24, 1943, the Catalina G of the US Navy Squadron VP-84 sighted the U 194 as it surfaced and immediately initiated the attack. The boat located the aircraft with the radar device and the crew tried to shoot down the flying boat with the flak , but this did not succeed. Despite the heavy flak fire, the boat was hit and destroyed by several depth charges and by a dropped Fido torpedo, an acoustically controlled targeting torpedo. The entire crew of 54 men lost their lives in the sinking. The fact that U 194 was sunk by the Liberator H of the British 120th Squadron is incorrect according to current investigations. On that day, this bomber attacked the sister boat U 200 under the command of Corvette Captain Heinrich Schonder and sank it. The wreck of U 194 is still in the former naval grid square AL 1511 at position 59 °, 00 'N - 26 °, 18' W.
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. 72.