U 207

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U 207
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Type : VII C
Field Post Number : M-43 387
Shipyard: F. Krupp Germania shipyard , Kiel
Construction contract: October 16, 1939
Build number: 636
Keel laying: August 14, 1940
Launch: April 24, 1941
Commissioning: June 7, 1941
Commanders:
  • 7 Jun. 1941 to 11 Sep. 1941
    Oblt. Fritz Meyer
Flotilla:
  • 7th U-Flotilla
    June 7, 1941 to Sep 11. 1941 training boat / front boat
Calls: 1 company
Sinkings:
  • 2 ships (9727 GRT)
Whereabouts: Sunk in Denmark on September 11, 1941 .

U 207 was a German type VII C submarine , which was used as an "Atlantic boat " during World War II .

history

The U 207 was commissioned from the Friedrich Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel-Garden on October 16, 1939 as the seventh boat in the U 201 to U 212 series . The keel laying with the temporary designation "Neubau 636" took place on August 14, 1940, the launch took place on April 24, 1941. The commissioning under Oberleutnant zur See Fritz Meyer, formerly in command of the Type VII A school boat U 34 , finally took place on 7 June 1941. The city ​​of Weimar took over the sponsorship of U 207 . Some representatives of the city presented the commandant with the city's coat of arms, a swastika- like cross on a white plate, under which the city's name was written. The boat also had its own maling on the tower: an elephant that trampled Prime Minister Churchill on the head. This maling took over Lieutenant Meyer from U 34 .

commitment

The boat left the port of Trondheim on August 24, 1941 for the first patrol into the North Atlantic. On this 19-day journey, U 207 operated in the North Atlantic, south of Iceland and south of Angmagsalik in Greenland . On September 11, the day it was sunk, Commander Meyer sighted the SC-42 convoy and fired a fan. The torpedoes hit the two British freighters Stonepool with 4803 GRT, which was already damaged on October 13, 1939 by Kptlt Daus' Type IX A boat U 42 and Berury with 4924 GRT.

Downfall

However, after the successful attack on convoy SC-42, U 207 was found by an aircraft. The aircraft reported the position of the boat to two escort destroyers, the HMS Leamington and the HMS Veteran , who then attached themselves to the heels of U 207 . The boat was sunk in three attempts with 21 depth charges. All 41 crew members were killed.

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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the same construction contract came: U 205 from Kptlt Reschke, U 206 from Oblt Opitz, U 208 from Oblt Schlieper, U 209 from Kptlt Brodda, U 210 from Krvkpt Lemcke, U 211 from Krvkpt home and U 212 from Kptlt Vogler.
  2. ^ 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. 74.