U 335
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | M-47 884 |
| Shipyard: | North Sea Works , Emden |
| Construction contract: | August 15, 1940 |
| Build number: | 207 |
| Keel laying: | January 3, 1941 |
| Launch: | October 15, 1941 |
| Commissioning: | December 17, 1941 |
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Dec. 17, 1941 to Aug. 3, 1942 |
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| Calls: | 1 company |
| Sinkings: |
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| Whereabouts: | Torpedoed on August 3, 1942 in the North Sea northeast of the Faroe Islands . |
U 335 was a so-called "Atlantic" submarine of the type VII C of the Kriegsmarine in World War II .
The boat
It was on 15 August 1940 together with U 336 , with the North Sea works in Emden commissioned and on January 3, 1941, entitled "New 207" set to Kiel . The launch took place on October 15, 1941 and the commissioning under Lieutenant Captain Hans-Hermann Pelkner took place on December 17, 1941. As a tower emblem, the boat had a white cross on a black sign on the port side of the tower.
history
The boat left Kiel on July 30, 1942 and moved to Kristiansand , from where it left for good on August 1.
On the evening of August 3, 1942, the officer on watch of the British submarine HMS Saracen sighted a shadow 2,700 meters away, which was identified as a German submarine. Just three minutes later, six torpedoes ran towards the German submarine. Two minutes later, a high column of water rose behind the tower and the boat disappeared after the explosion. HMS Saracen immediately ran to the sinking site to pick up survivors, but only three men could be found in the water. One drowned shortly before he was saved, one was already dead. Only the radio operator, Rudolf Jahnke, could be saved alive.
The wreck is located in the former naval grid square AF 7294 at position 62 ° 48 'N - 00 ° 12' W.
literature
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war, the submarine building on German shipyards. ES Mittler & Sohn , Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0509-6 .
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0509-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 92
- ↑ A photo of U 335 at the UAK proves that the colors of the coat of arms were different than indicated: the cross was black and the shield was white