U 351

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U 351
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Type : VII C
Field Post Number : 33 940
Shipyard: Flensburg shipbuilding company
Construction contract: September 23, 1939
Build number: 470
Keel laying: March 4th 1940
Launch: March 27, 1941
Commissioning: June 20, 1941
Commanders:
  • Karl home
    June - December 1941
  • Günther Rosenberg
    December 1941 - August 1942.
  • Eberhard Zimmermann
    August 1942 - May 1943.
  • Götz Roth
    May - October 1943.
  • Helmut Wicke
    December 1943 - June 1944.
  • Hans-Jürgen Schley
    July 1944 - March 1945.
  • Hugo Stehl
    March - May 1945.
Flotilla:
Calls: no use as a front boat
Sinkings:

no

Whereabouts: sunk in Hørup Hav itself on May 5th

U 351 was a German submarine from the Type VII C , a so-called because of its possibilities "Atlantic Boat". It was used by the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War in the Baltic Sea for the training and instruction of officers and men.

Technical specifications

U 351 was built by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft , which built 20 boats of the VII for the navy by 1944. Five boats of this class were built in 1941. A VII C-boat was 67.1 m long and had a draft of 4.8 m. It was propelled by two diesel engines when sailing above water, which ensured a top speed of 17 knots . The electric motors used for underwater travel achieved a speed of 7.6 kn. U 351 wore a mermaid on the tower and, probably referring to the place of birth of the temporary commander Rosenberg, the Hamburg coat of arms and the crew mark of his officer's class , the Olympic rings.

commitment

U 351 was used exclusively by the naval training associations stationed in Stettin , Memel , Pillau and Gotenhafen and did not complete any operations.

Sinking

Although Karl Dönitz , Commander in Chief of the Navy and Commander of the U-Boats , had withdrawn the rainbow order to sink the German U-Boats on May 4, 1945, many commanders decided to sink their boats themselves anyway . U 351 was sunk in Hörup Haff in southern Denmark , lifted in 1948 and then scrapped.

literature

  • 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 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 .

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ 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. 83.
  2. ↑ R. Busch, H.-J. Röll: The Submarine War 1939–1945. Volume 4. 1999, p. 356.
  3. ↑ At the same time, U 1234 , U 2352 , U 4701 and U 4702 were self- scuttled in Hörup Haff by their respective crews.