U 433
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| Type : | VII C |
| Shipyard: | Schichau-Werke , Danzig |
| Construction contract: | September 23, 1939 |
| Build number: | 1474 |
| Keel laying: | 4th January 1940 |
| Launch: | March 15, 1941 |
| Commissioning: | May 24, 1941 |
| Commanders: |
May 24 - November 16, 1941 |
| Calls: | 2 patrols |
| Sinkings: |
no; a merchant ship was slightly damaged |
| Whereabouts: | sunk in the Mediterranean on November 16, 1941 |
U 433 was a Type VII C submarine of the German Navy that was used in World War II .
history
The boat was laid on January 4, 1940 at the Schichau works in Danzig . The launch took place on March 15, 1941; On May 24, 1941, the boat was put into service under First Lieutenant Hans Ey. The boat belonged to the third U-flotilla to the sinking on 16 November 1941, the HMS Marigold (K87) in the Mediterranean by depth charges . Six crew members were killed, 38 were rescued, who came to Camp 30 in Canadian captivity. With the ultimately failed company Kiebitz should u. a. the commander Lieutenant Captain Hans Ey to be released.
In two patrol trips, she damaged a merchant ship with a total of 2215 GRT .
See also
literature
- Eberhard Möller, Werner Brack: Encyclopedia of German U-Boats. From 1904 to the present . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02245-1 .
Web links
- U 434 at uboat.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Clay Blair: Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters 1939-1942 . Orion, 2011, ISBN 978-0-297-86621-3 ( google.de ).
- ↑ Michael L. Hadley: U-Boats Against Canada: German Submarines in Canadian Waters . McGill-Queen's Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-7735-0801-9 , pp. 175 ( google.de [accessed October 20, 2018]).
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