U 2518

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U 2518
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French submarine Roland Morillot at sea c1950.jpg
U 2518 as Roland Morillot , around 1950
Type : XXI
Field Post Number : M-49105
Shipyard: Blohm & Voss , Hamburg
Construction contract: November 6, 1943
Build number: 2518
Keel laying: August 16, 1944
Launch: October 4, 1944
Commissioning: November 4, 1944
Commanders:

November 4, 1944 to May 9, 1945 Oberleutnant zur See / KptLt. Friedrich Weidner

Flotilla:

November 4, 1944 - April 1, 1945 Training boat 31st U-Flotilla, Hamburg April 1, 1945 - May 8, 1945 Front boat 11th U-Flotilla , Bergen

Calls: no patrols
Sinkings:

no depressions

Whereabouts: Surrenders in Horten on May 9, 1945. Transferred to Great Britain, and since February 14, 1946 used as the French Roland Morillot . Scrapped as Q 426 in La Spezia, Italy in 1969 .

U 2518 was a German type XXI submarine , which was used by the Navy during World War II . Like all other type XXI boats, with the exception of U 2511 and U 3008 , U 2518 did not carry out any operations.

history

The building contract for U 2518 was given to Blohm + Voss in Hamburg on November 6, 1943 as the eighteenth type XXI unit. After the sections had been delivered, it could be laid on the keel and was launched after a two-month construction period. The command was taken over by First Lieutenant Weidner, who was first in command of UD 1 and U 1052. He and his men gave the boat a tower emblem: The 3 X black tomcat of U 48 and U 564 was carried in a slightly modified form on the starboard side of the tower. When the boat was in the training phase in the Baltic Sea, it took six refugees from East Prussia. U 2518 is also said to have seen the surfaced Russian submarine S-13 , which sank the Wilhelm Gustloff on January 30, 1945, several times . U 2518 was one of eleven Type XXI boats that capitulated in Norway at the end of the war.

Whereabouts of the boat

U 2518 was handed over to France on February 14, 1946 as part of "Operation Thankful" and was put back into service there. It operated as U 2518 until 1951 and was renamed "Roland Morillot" in 1951 with a modified tower structure. In 1969 the last hour struck for ex U 2518. It was sold to the SPA Lotti in La Spezia on May 21, 1969 and scrapped.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coat of arms of Maling's German U-Boats 1939–1945 . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, 5th edition, p. 176
  2. ^ Eckard Wetzel: U-2540. The legendary German submarine type XXI. 1st edition 2012, Motorbuch Verlag, p. 95
  3. After the First World War, the French Navy already owned a submarine called Roland Morillot: It was SM UB 26, which was sunk on April 5, 1916 on the harbor barrier at Le Havre by the torpedo boat "Trombe". Roland Morillot went down in 1915 with his submarine "Monge". "Monge" was sunk in an attack by SMS Helgoland . All the men except him survived the sinking of their boat. Three submarines of the French Navy got his name.

literature

  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war, The submarine construction on German shipyards , ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0509-6
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War Volume 1 The German U-Boat Commanders , ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0509-6
  • Fritz Köhl: From the original to the model: Uboottyp XXI. A picture and plan documentation. With the collaboration of Eberhard Rössler. Bernard
  • Eckard Wetzel: U-2540. The legendary German submarine type XXI. 1st edition 2012, Motorbuch Verlag, ISBN 978-3-613-03492-1