U 239

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U 239
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Type : VII C
Field Post Number : M-50 794
Shipyard: F. Krupp Germania shipyard , Kiel
Construction contract: January 20, 1941
Build number: G 669
Keel laying: May 14, 1942
Launch: January 28, 1943
Commissioning: March 13, 1943
Commanders:
  • 13 Mar 1943 to August 1944
    Ltnt / Oblt Ulrich Vöge
Flotilla:
  • 5th U-Flotilla
    13 Mar. 1943 to July 1943 for training
  • 22nd U-Flotilla
    July 1943 to July 24th 1944 as a school boat
  • 5th U-Flotilla
    July 25, 1944 to Aug. 1944 -
Calls: no ventures
Sinkings:

no

Whereabouts: Sunk by the British RAF Bomber Command at the Deutsche Werke on July 24, 1944 , decommissioned and scrapped on August 5.

U 239 was a German type VII C submarinethat was usedby the Navy as a school boat and as a training boat in the Baltic Sea during World War II .

history

The boat was part of the ninth construction contract that the Germania shipyard received from the Navy after the start of the war. In addition to the U 239 , five other boats ( U 235 to U 240 ) were part of this construction contract from January 20, 1941 . The keel was laid with the construction number 669 on May 14, 1942. The launch took place on January 28, 1943. The commissioning under Leutnant zur See - later Oberleutnant zur See - Ulrich Vöge, officer candidate of Crew 38 , called Grossdeutschland , took place on March 13, 1943. On the tower, U 239 carried the head of a boar , which was in a white circle. This emblem was also entered in a memory book of the Germania shipyard.

End of the boat

During an air raid by the RAF Bomber Command on Kiel on July 24, 1944, U 239 , which was at the German works, was sunk by the bombs with a man from the crew. It was lifted, decommissioned on August 5th and scrapped. The crew under Oberleutnant Vöge was later sent to Hamburg to take part in the building instruction of their new boat, the Type XXI boat U 2536 .

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. ^ 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. 79.