U 4710
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| Type : | Type XXIII |
| Field Post Number : | 52 881 |
| Shipyard: | Germania shipyard , Kiel |
| Construction contract: | July 7, 1944 |
| Build number: | 952 |
| Keel laying: | December 1944 |
| Launch: | April 14, 1945 |
| Commissioning: | May 1, 1945 |
| Commanders: | |
| Flotilla: |
1st to 5th May 1945 |
| Calls: | no |
| Sinkings: |
no |
| Whereabouts: | self- sunk on May 5, 1945 in the Geltinger Bucht , according to Rainbow command |
U 4710 was a German submarine from the Type XXIII . It wasput into servicea few days before the end of the war and was no longer used. U 4710 was the last German submarine toenter serviceduring World War II .
construction
The Germania shipyard in Kiel was commissioned by the Reichsmarine with the construction of submarines as early as the early 1930s , which were assembled in secrecy in breach of the agreements of the Versailles Treaty . From the beginning of the war, the Kiel shipyard was commissioned with custom-made products in addition to the construction of the most frequently built Type VII submarine . The first new submarine developments based on the Walter drive , which was developed by Hellmuth Walter at the Germania shipyard, were also manufactured here. In 1945 the shipyard delivered a total of 11 "Walter boats" of the XXIII type to the Navy. The smaller boats of the Type XXIII were designed for short-term use close to the coast, had no artillery armament and only carried two torpedoes with them.
End of the boat
The commandant of the boat, Oberleutnant zur See Ludwig Ferdinand von Friedeburg , was the son of General Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg , the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, who signed the partial surrender on May 4th on behalf of Karl Dönitz in preparation for the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht. A day later, U 4710 in the Geltinger bay near Flensburg by the crew scuttled . Commander von Friedeburg hereby followed the so-called rainbow order , which ordered the scuttling and forbade the submarines to be handed over to allied forces. However, this order had already been withdrawn on May 4th in preparation for the partial surrender.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: Submarine construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , page 193 - page 209
- ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 4: The German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1999, ISBN 978-3-8132-0514-5 , page 358