U 369
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 Coat of arms of Soest , the godfather city of U 348 . The crest was of U 348's commander KL Schnuck on U 369 taken |
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | M-53 519 |
| Shipyard: | Flensburg shipbuilding company |
| Construction contract: | August 25, 1941 |
| Build number: | 492 |
| Keel laying: | October 16, 1942 |
| Launch: | August 17, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | October 15, 1943 |
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| Calls: | no ventures |
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| Whereabouts: | Surrender on May 9, 1945 in Kristiansand . Transfer to Loch Ryan and sunk on November 30, 1945 in Operation Deadlight . |
U 369 was a German class VII C submarine , which was used for training purposes in the submarine war in the Baltic Sea . It was the penultimate Type VII CU boat of the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft .
Construction and history of the submarine
U 369 was commissioned by the Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft on August 25, 1941, together with its sister boats U 367 , U 368 and U 370 . The keel-laying of the boat under the name Neubau 492 began on October 16, 1942 and the launch took place on August 17, 1943. The commissioning under Lieutenant zur See , later Lieutenant Ludwig Schaafhausen, took place on October 15, 1943. After commissioning, U 369 , U 368 and U 367 of the 22nd U-Flotilla in Gotenhafen, the 21st U-Flotilla in Pillau and the 23rd U-Flotilla in Danzig and used as training submarines in the Baltic Sea . While U 369 and U 368 survived the war undamaged, U 367 was lost on March 15, 1945 in a Soviet minefield off Hela . The coat of arms of the boat was the city arms of Soest , which Kapitänleutnant Schnuck took with him from his destroyed U 348 . When he surrendered his boat to the victorious powers, he took the coat of arms and hid it to protect it from the Allies.
Whereabouts
After the surrender, U 369 and all other U-boats of the Kriegsmarine were transferred to Great Britain and distributed to the ports of Loch Ryan and Lisahally . Until November 1945 the boats U 776 , U 281 , U 299 and U 369 were moored together in Loch Ryan. On November 30, 1945 U 369 was towed by the British frigate HMS Rupert (K.561) and brought to the sinking position. But the submarine was already sinking and could no longer be held, which prompted the British to sink the boat with artillery fire from HMS Onslaught (G.04) . The position of the wreck is 55 ° 31.40 'N-07 ° 27.40' W in the former naval grid square AM 5379
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 mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 93 / p. 96.