U 248

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U 248
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Type : VII C
Shipyard: Germania shipyard , Kiel
Construction contract: June 5, 1941
Keel laying: December 19, 1942
Launch: October 7, 1943
Commissioning: November 6, 1943
Commanders:
  • November 6, 1943 - October 31, 1944
    First Lieutenant . Bernhard Emde
  • November 1, 1944 - January 16, 1945
    First Lieutenant Johann-Friedrich Loos
Calls: 2 activities
Sinkings:

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Whereabouts: Sunk on January 16, 1945.

U 248 was a German submarine from the Type VII C , which in the Second World War by the Navy was used.

history

The boat was commissioned on June 5, 1941 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel . The keel was laid on December 19, 1942, the launch on October 7, 1943, and commissioning under Oberleutnant zur See Bernhard Emde on November 6, 1943.

From commissioning until July 31, 1944, the boat belonged to the 5th U-Flotilla and completed two training trips there, before it was transferred as the front boat of the 9th U-Flotilla on August 1, 1944 .

The boat left Bergen on August 18 for its first patrol, which ended in Trondheim on October 14, 1944 . During the stay in Trondheim, the boat was transferred to the 11th U-Flotilla and got a new commander in the form of First Lieutenant Johann-Friedrich Loos.

Whereabouts

On December 3, 1944, the boat set out on its second patrol. On January 16, 1945, it was sunk in the North Atlantic by four destroyer escorts of the US Navy ( USS Hayter , USS Otter , USS Varian and USS Hubbard ) at 47 ° 43 '  N , 26 ° 37'  W by using depth charges.

The four US destroyer escorts formed the Escort Division 62 and were assigned to the weather boats U 1053 , U 1232 , U 1230 and U 248 operating in the North Atlantic . At 9:10 PM, the detected high-frequency direction finding of Hayter the submarine. The four destroyers then began throwing depth charges and hedgehogs in a wide rectangle . At 11.49 a.m. the dull roar of the detonations below was drowned out by a loud rumble. Planks, clothing and shapeless debris rising to the surface of the water demonstrated that the submarine was sunk with the loss of 47 lives.

literature

  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 .

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