U 2365
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.jpg) Post-war photo of U 2367 (then NATO identification S 171), an identical sister submarine of U 2365 |
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| Type : |
XXIII after reconstruction in 1964: Class 240 |
| Field Post Number : | 51 377 (until 1945) |
| Shipyard: | German shipyard , Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | September 20, 1944 |
| Build number: | 519 |
| Keel laying: | December 6, 1944 |
| Launch: | January 26th |
| Commissioning: | March 2, 1945 |
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| Calls: | * no activities
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| Whereabouts: | * self-sunk on May 8, 1945 in the Kattegat ( rainbow order )
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U 2365 was a German submarine from the Type XXIII . It was the day of the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , May 8, 1945 in the Kattegat scuttled , lifted in 1955 and from the German Navy under the name U Hai as a training ship used until 1966 in the North Sea went down in the storm.
history
Use in the Navy
The boat was put into service on March 2, 1945 and was part of the 4th U-Flotilla . Due to the tumultuous events of the last two months of the war, the Navy was no longer deployed. The boat was eventually according to the long-standing, but by Admiral Doenitz repealed on the evening of May 4, 1945 Rainbow command of his crew on May 8, 1945 in the Kattegat scuttled .
The commander lowered the boat carefully after the oil containers had been opened so that their contents were distributed in order to exert a certain anti-rust effect.
Use in the German Navy
The Ministry of Defense issued the Hamburg salvage company Beckedorf after the lifting of the Occupation Statute on 5 May 1955, the Kattegat near the island of the contract, Anholt on the seabed lying U in 2365 to locate and lift.
In June 1956 the submarine was lifted back into daylight from a depth of more than 50 m. Thanks to the "oil treatment", the boat was still in astonishingly good condition, so that in less than a year it was completely overhauled by the Howaldts works in Kiel and delivered to the German Navy in a slightly modified version . The nose was modified to accommodate a new active acoustic tracking device, and it was given an anchor device that was not available on the XXIII. The German Navy put it into service under the new name U Hai (S 170) on August 15, 1957 as a school submarine under the command of Kapitänleutnant Ehrhardt. The home port was initially Flensburg- Mürwik ; later Neustadt in Holstein .
| Rank | Surname | from | to |
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| Lieutenant captain | Ehrhardt | August 15, 1957 | October 15, 1958 |
| Lieutenant captain | Voss | October 16, 1958 | July 16, 1960 |
| Lieutenant captain | Emsmann | July 16, 1960 | July 31, 1963 |
| Lieutenant z. S. | E.-D. Young | August 1, 1963 | March 22, 1964 |
| Lieutenant z. S. | Wolf D. Rehse | March 22, 1964 | June 30, 1966 |
| Lieutenant z. S. | Joachim-Peter Wiedersheim (sunk by boat) |
July 1, 1966 | September 14, 1966 |
Downfall
During an overwater voyage in a storm, U Hai sank in the North Sea on September 14, 1966, about 138 nm northwest of Heligoland in the Doggerbank area at a depth of 40 m. Of the 20-man crew, only the cook ( Smut ), chief mate Peter Silbernagel (1943–2013), was rescued from the North Sea by the English fishing trawler St. Martin after 14 hours . The other 19 men died.
The cause of the accident was an incorrectly redesigned intake manifold for the diesel engine; In addition, the service regulations had not been adapted to the changed handling that had become necessary due to the conversion.
The wreck was lifted five days later by the Magnus III mountain crane , towed to Emden for examination and broken up there; the official decommissioning took place on September 24, 1966.
| Rank | Surname |
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| Lieutenant z. S. | Joachim-Peter Wiedersheim |
| Lieutenant z. S. | Wilhelm way |
| Lieutenant z. S. | Hardmut Seemann |
| Lieutenant z. S. | Reinhold Bauer |
| Captain | Manfred Bieling |
| Captain | Rolf von Lindern |
| Boatswain | Hubert Zigan |
| Chief mate | Hans-Jürgen Wiecek |
| Chief mate | Rainer Feld |
| Chief mate | Hans-Jürgen Muth |
| Mate | Edgar Kup |
| Mate | Edwin Adamietz |
| Mate | Wolfgang Weiss |
| Corporal | Klaus Gerdewischke |
| Corporal | Erwin Jungbeck |
| Corporal | Norbert Keske |
| Private | Martin Lehnhardt |
| Private | Gerhard Ramsauer |
| Private | Herbert Penth |
Commemoration
The boat bell of U Hai was in the hall of the Naval Monument Laboe issued. It was stolen by strangers in the 1970s, and a replica has been there ever since.
A memorial stone on the Protestant southern cemetery in Neustadt in Holstein commemorates those of the submarine crew who drowned on September 14, 1966.
Some graves with reference to U Hai are located in the Kiel North Cemetery .
The grave of Joachim-Peter Wiedersheim is in the cemetery of his hometown Kressbronn on Lake Constance.
See also
- List of Bundeswehr submarines
- List of German submarines (1935–1945)
- List of submarine accidents since 1945
Web links
- U 2365 at uboat.net (English)
- Website of the submarine boat meeting
- Shark misfortune. Trials and tribulations . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1966, pp. 28 ff . ( online - September 26, 1966 ).
- Count Cay Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Dietrich Lachmund: Where does human failure begin? SPIEGEL interview with frigate captain a. D. Reinhard Suhren on the sinking of the submarine “Hai” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1966, pp. 47 ff . ( Online - Oct. 10, 1966 ).
- School submarine Hai - Class 240 (formerly Type XXIII) ( Memento from February 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannes Ewerth: The U-Flotilla of the German Navy. Koehler, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-7822-0398-4 .
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: “Magnus III” floating crane over submarine - recovery of U “Hai” begins
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Hannes Ewerth: The U-Flotilla of the German Navy , 2nd revised edition, Koehler Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 1995, pp. 88–93.
- ↑ Jochen Rack: For peace, law and freedom - The forgotten dead of the Bundeswehr. In: dradio.de, The Feature. Deutschlandfunk, January 11, 2011, archived from the original on December 12, 2010 ; accessed on January 24, 2015 .
- ^ Johann Althaus: Tragedy in the North Sea - When the submarine “Hai” sank in a storm. In: n24.de, Knowledge / History. Die Welt, N24, September 14, 2016, accessed September 15, 2016 .
- ^ Karl-Josef Schmeink (webmaster), Dieter Pahmeyer (domain owner), Siegmund Mainusch (person responsible for content): Remembrance after 40 years of the sinking of the submarine Hai. In: Unterseeboot-hai.de. Verband Deutscher U-Bootfahrer eV (VDU), September 2006, archived from the original on September 2, 2017 ; accessed on September 1, 2017 .