U 2502
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U 2502 in the Kattegat on April 19, 1945. |
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| Type : | XXI |
| Field Post Number : | M-41658 |
| Shipyard: | Blohm & Voss in Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | November 6, 1943 |
| Build number: | 2502 |
| Keel laying: | April 25, 1944 |
| Launch: | June 15, 1944 |
| Commissioning: | July 19, 1944 |
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| Flotilla: |
19 July 1944 - March 1945 training boat 31st U-Flotilla, Hamburg March 1945 - 8 May 1945 Front boat 11th U-Flotilla , Bergen |
| Calls: | no patrols |
| Sinkings: |
no depressions |
| Whereabouts: | Capitulated on May 9, 1945 in Horten (Norway), transferred to Scapa Flow and later sunk in Operation Deadlight . |
U 2502 was a German type XXI submarine . After the building contract, which was issued on November 6, 1943, it was given hull number 2502, which also corresponded to the boat number that was later assigned. The keel was laid on April 25, 1944 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg . It was commissioned with the 11th U-Flotilla in Horten on July 19, 1944 under Kptl. G. Mannesmann. On January 1, 1946, U 2502 was sunk during Operation Deadlight .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , p. 158.
- ↑ Kptl.dR Gert Mannesmann was on April 8, 1945 during an air raid on Hamburg, killed.
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 , p. 289.