U 315
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | M-53 225 |
| Shipyard: | Flender-Werke , Lübeck |
| Construction contract: | August 25, 1941 |
| Build number: | 315 |
| Keel laying: | July 7, 1942 |
| Launch: | May 29, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | July 10, 1943 |
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| Calls: | 11 activities |
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| Whereabouts: | Decommissioned on May 1, 1945 in Trondheim . Not handed over to the UK and scrapped in Trondheim in March 1947. |
U 315 was a German Submarine of the type VII C , which in World War II, primarily for the control of convoys in the Barents was used.
history
The U 315 was commissioned on August 25, 1941 together with its sister boats U 313 , U 314 and U 316 from the Lübeck Flender Works . The keel was laid on July 7, 1942, the launch took place on May 29, 1943 and the commissioning under Lieutenant zur See Herbert Zoller, previously WO on U 569 , took place on July 10, 1943. U 315 led a hand on the tower as Maling that came out of the water and destroyed a ship. U 315 completed eleven operations on which a ship with 4,996 GRT and a warship with 1,370 t were sunk.
On September 14, 1944, U 315 ran from Hammerfest in the direction of Kolafjord . Zoller had the instruction to attack a warship lying in the local Soviet naval base at the mouth of the Wajenga . The Arkhangelsk was the largest ship in the Red Fleet at the time . The ship had originally been part of the British fleet as HMS Royal Sovereign and was handed over to the USSR and renamed as compensation as part of the reparations for the dissolution of the Italian Regia Marina . Since then, the Arkhangelsk has been in the heavily secured Vajenga Bay. When approaching the area of operation, the U 315 got caught several times in network locks anchored at the bottom of the fjord. As the lengthy maneuvers required to free the boat quickly overstrained its battery capacity and also limited the reliability of the navigation, Commander Zoller decided to abandon the attack. The boat returned to Hammerfest on September 25th. The Arkhangelsk remained at her anchorage in the Kolafjord throughout the Second World War and was returned to the British Navy in 1949.
Whereabouts
The boat was handed over to the Royal Navy on May 9, 1945, along with twelve other boats in Trondheim . While the other boats were transferred to Loch Ryan in Scotland or the port of Londonderry in Lisahally , Northern Ireland, at the end of May 1945 , U 315 remained in Trondheim due to unseaworthiness and was awarded to the Norwegian Navy as spoils of war. Since it was no longer in good condition, it was no longer put into service, but scrapped in March 1947.
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
- ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 90.
- ^ Eckard Wetzel: U-Boats in front of Murmansk , Ullstein, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-548-26810-1 , pages 154-156
- ↑ U 995 (OltzS Hans-Georg Hess), U 861 (Kkpt Jürgen Oesten ), U 978 (Klt Günther Pulst), U 1203 (OltzS Sigurd Seeger), U 773 (OltzS Hugo Baldus), U 953 (OltzS Erich Steinbrink) , U 1019 (OltzS Hans Rinck), U 310 (Klt Wolfgang Ley), U 483 , (Klt Hans-Joachim von Morstein), U 775 (Klt Ewald Taschenmacher), U 994 (OltzS Volker Melzer) and U 1064 (Kkpt Karl -Hermann Schneidewind).