U 27 (German Armed Forces)
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| Type : | Class 206 |
| Commissioning: | October 16, 1974 |
| Decommissioning: | June 13, 1996 |
U 27 ( NATO designation S 176) was a submarine of submarine class 206 of the German Navy . It entered service in 1974 and retired in 1996 and then scrapped. A conversion to class 206 A did not take place.
1988 marine casualty
The boat became famous when in 1988 it collided with the Norsk Hydro's Oseberg B drilling platform off Bergen (Norway) at a depth of around 30 meters. The boat got caught in the underwater steel cables of the oil platform and the associated hotel platform Polyconfidence about forty meters away . Since the exact position of the platforms was not recorded on his nautical chart , it was not possible for the commander, Kapitänleutnant Michael Setzer, to prevent the accident during the dive . Although he recorded the drilling platform with the periscope , the holding cables were not discovered. Nevertheless, he managed to maneuver the boat to the surface of the water. People were not harmed in the accident. The total damage to the drilling platform amounted to tens of millions of D-Marks .
List of commanders
- 1974–1977: KptLt Schamp
- 1977–1977: KKpt Wallner
- 1977–1981: KptLt Unger
- 1981–1981: KKpt Petsch
- 1981–1981: OLtzS Kähler
- 1981–1984: KptLt Krönke
- 1984–1985: KKpt von Müller
- 1985–1987: KKpt Schmidt
- 1987–1988: KKpt Setzer
- 1988–1989: KptLt Wartini
- 1989–1991: KptLt Loth
- 1991–1991: KptLt Plettau
- 1991-1993: KKpt Brüh
Source: The German Navy's submarine weapon
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1988: Collision of "U-27" with a Norwegian oil drilling platform. In: Special Events. German U-Boat Museum, accessed on March 23, 2020 .
- ↑ U 27 - Travel with the wrong cards . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1988 ( online ).
- ↑ The submarine weapon of the German Navy. U-Boot Kameradschaft Hamburg e. V., accessed on March 23, 2020 .