U 199

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U 199
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Type : IX D2
Shipyard: Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft / AG Weser , Bremen
Construction contract: November 4th 1940
Build number: 1045
Keel laying: October 10, 1941
Launch: July 11, 1942
Commissioning: November 28, 1942
Commanders:
Flotilla:
Calls: 1 activities
Sinkings:

2 ships (4,361 GRT)

Whereabouts: Sunk by a Brazilian plane on July 31, 1943 off Brazil (49 dead, 12 prisoners of war)

U 199 was a German submarine from the IX D2 that was usedby the German Navy during World War II . On its only patrol, it sank2 ships of 4,361 GRT, killing a total of 12 people. U 199 was sunkby US and Brazilian aircraftoff the Brazilian coaston July 31, 1943, killing 49 men and 12 - among them the commander Hans-Werner Kraus -becomingUS prisoners of war .

Technical specifications

The order for the boat was awarded on November 4, 1940 to the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft und AG Weser , Bremen . The keel was laid on October 10, 1941, the launch on July 11, 1942. The commissioning under Kapitänleutnant Hans-Werner Kraus finally took place on November 28, 1942.

history

After its commissioning on November 28, 1942 to April 30, 1943, the submarine belonged to the 4th U-Flotilla , and from May 1, 1943 to July 31, 1943 to the 12th U-Flotilla . U 199 sank the ships Shangri-lá ( Brazil ) and Henzada ( United Kingdom ).

First patrol

U 199 ran from Kiel on May 13, 1943 under the command of Lieutenant Hans-Werner Kraus. After the march across the Baltic Sea, we called at Norway, where fuel was replenished in Kristiansand and a new Metox device was taken on board in Bergen . The boat then operated in the South Atlantic along the coast of Brazil, off Rio de Janeiro and Santos . On this venture it was able to sink two ships with around 4,361 GRT. After 79 days at sea, U 199 was finally sunk by American planes.

  • July 5, 1943: sinking of the Brazilian sailing ship Shangri-lá (200 GRT), whereby all ten crew members died.
  • July 24, 1943: Sinking of the British freighter Henzada (4,161 GRT), whereby two men died and 62 were rescued by the Panamanian ship MV Baltic .

Whereabouts

U 199 sank in the first and only mission on the morning of July 31, 1943 off the Brazilian coast as a result of a united attack by Brazil and the United States. First it was badly damaged by a Martin PBM Mariner of the US Navy and made incapable of diving and then sunk by depth charges from a Consolidated PBY Catalina and a Lockheed Hudson from the Brazilian Air Force . 49 men of the crew went down with the boat, but twelve men survived the sinking and were finally taken on board as prisoners of war by the US aircraft mother ship USS Barnegat . Among those rescued were seven officers, including commandant Hans-Werner Kraus , and five crew ranks .

literature

  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. Preface by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rohwer, Member of the Presidium of the International Commission on Military History. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1996, p. 132. ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: Submarine construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1997, pp. 95, 211. ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 3: The German submarine successes from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2008, p. 142. ISBN 978-3-8132-0513-8 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: The German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2008, p. 128. ISBN 978-3-8132-0514-5 .
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maas: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 3: Submarines, auxiliary cruisers, mine ships, net layers. Bernhard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7637-4802-4 .
  • Clay Blair : The Submarine War - The Hunted 1942–1945 . Heyne Verlag, 1999. pp. 417, 420-423. ISBN 3-4531-6059-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .
  2. ^ U 199. In: U-Boot-Archiv Wiki. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .