U 510

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Type :	IX C
Field Post Number :	M 42702
Shipyard:	German shipyard , Hamburg
Construction contract:	October 20, 1939
Build number:	306
Keel laying:	November 1, 1940
Launch:	September 4, 1941
Commissioning:	November 25, 1941
Commanders:	November 25, 1941 - May 21, 1943 Frigate Captain Karl Neitzel May 22, 1943 - May 8, 1945 KptLt. Alfred Eick
Calls:	7 activities
Sinkings:	15 ships (95,687 GRT)
Whereabouts:	Decommissioned as Q 176 of the French Navy on May 1, 1959 and scrapped in 1960

U 510 was a German type IX C submarinethat was used by the German Navy in World War II . It was used as a so-called monsoon boat .

history

Construction and commissioning

The construction contract was given to the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg on October 20, 1939 . At the beginning of the Second World War, this shipyard had received the order to manufacture replicas of Type IX boats - originally manufactured by Deschimag AG Weser - in large series. By the end of the war, the Deutsche Werft produced 24 Type IX C submarines for the Navy. The keel of the boat with hull number 306 took place on November 1, 1940, the launch on September 4, 1941. On November 25, 1941, the boat with the designation U 510 was put into service under the command of Korvettenkapitän Karl Neitzel.

Commanders, flotilla affiliations and stationings

After its commissioning, the boat belonged to the 4th U-Flotilla in Stettin as a training boat until July 31, 1942 and was used to train the crew. From July 31, 1942 to September 30, 1944 it was under the control of the 10th U-Flotilla in Lorient, France, as a front boat . After the dissolution of the 10th U-Flotilla, the boat belonged to the 33rd U-Flotilla until the end of the war . During the entire training period and for the first three patrols, FKpt. Karl Neitzel in command of the boat. From May 23, 1943 until the decommissioning of the boat in St. Nazaire on May 9, 1945, Lieutenant Captain Alfred Eick was in command.

Calls

U 510 took seven patrols on which the commander Charles Neitzel and Alfred Eick sunk 15 ships with 95,687 GRT and eight ships were damaged with 53,289 GRT.

First venture

U 510 left Kiel on July 7, 1942 and entered Lorient on September 13 after 68 days at sea. On this venture two ships with 10,256 GRT were sunk and one ship with 8,016 GRT was damaged.

• August 2, 1942: sinking of the Uruguayan steamer Maldonado (5,285 GRT)
• August 10, 1942: Damage to the British tanker Alexia (8,061 GRT)
• 19 August 1942: sinking of the British steamer Cressington Court (4,971 GRT, 8 dead)

Second venture

The boat left Lorient on October 14, 1942, and returned there on December 12. A ship with a weight of 5,681 GRT was damaged on this 60-day undertaking.

• October 26, 1942: Damage to the Norwegian steamer Alaska (5,681 GRT)

Third company

U 510 left Lorient on January 16, 1943 and returned on April 16. On this enterprise three ships with 18,180 GRT were sunk and five ships with 35,950 GRT were damaged.

• March 9, 1943: Damage to the American steamer George G. Meade (7,176 GRT, moving in convoy BT-6)
• March 9, 1943: sinking of the British steamer Kelvinbank (3,872 GRT, driving in convoy BT-6, 28 dead)
• March 9, 1943: Damage to the American steamer Tabitha Brown (7,176 GRT, traveling in convoy BT-6)
• March 9, 1943: Damage to the American steamer Joseph Rodman Drake (7,181 GRT, moving in convoy BT-6)
• March 9, 1943: Damage to the American steamer Mark Hanna (7,176 GRT, traveling in convoy BT-6)
• March 9, 1943: Damage to the American steamer James Smith (7,181 GRT, in convoy BT-6)
• March 9, 1943: sinking of the American steamer Thomas Ruffin (7,191 GRT, traveling in convoy BT-6, 6 dead)
• March 9, 1943: sinking of the American steamer James K. Polk (7,177 GRT, driving in convoy BT-6, 1 dead)

Fourth venture

The boat left Lorient on June 3, 1943 and returned there on August 29, 1943 after 88 days at sea. In this operation, three ships with 18,865 GRT were sunk and one ship with 3,702 GRT was damaged. On July 8, Commander Eick, who was on the way to Brazil with U 510 , discovered the convoy TJ 1 off French Guiana , which was on its way from Trinidad to Rio de Janeiro. The convoy was secured by the American destroyer Somers and five smaller warships, but Eick decided to attack in the following nights.

• July 9, 1943: sinking of the Norwegian tanker BP Newton (10,324 GRT, driving in convoy TJ-1, 23 dead)
• July 9, 1943: sinking of the American steamer Eldena (6,900 GRT, traveling in convoy TJ-1)
• July 9, 1943: Damage to the Latvian steamer Everagra (3,702 GRT, traveling in convoy TJ-1)
• July 10, 1943: sinking of the Swedish steamer Scandinavia (1,641 GRT)

Fifth venture

U 510 left Lorient on November 3, 1943 and entered Penang on April 5, 1944 . During this 155 day long undertaking, six ships with 41,190 GRT were sunk.

• February 22, 1944: sinking of the British steamer San Alvaro (7,385 GRT, driving in convoy PA-69, 1 dead)
• February 22, 1944: sinking of the Norwegian tanker Erling Brøvig (9,970 GRT, driving in convoy PA-69)
• February 22, 1944: sinking of the American tanker EG Seubert (9,191 GRT, driving in convoy PA-69, 6 dead)
• March 7, 1944: sinking of the Norwegian steamer Tarifa (7,229 GRT, 3 dead)
• March 19, 1944: sinking of the American steamer John A. Poor (7,176 GRT, 34 dead)
• March 27, 1944: sinking of the British minesweeper HMS Maaløy (249 GRT, 26 dead including the Maldivian Prime Minister Hassan Fareed )

Sixth venture

After the fifth patrol, the boat moved via Singapore and Kobe to Batavia (now Jakarta ). From there, it set sail on November 26, 1944, but returned after an uneventful patrol on December 3 after just eight days at sea.

Seventh venture

On January 11, 1945 the boat set sail in Batavia to start the journey home to Europe. After 103 days at sea, the boat entered St. Nazaire on April 23 . During this enterprise a ship with 7,136 GRT was sunk.

• February 23, 1945: sinking of the Canadian steamer Point Pleasant Park (9,970 GRT, 9 dead)

Whereabouts

On May 9, 1945 U 510 was captured by the French armed forces and put into service in the French Navy under the name Bouan . As Q 176 , it was decommissioned on May 1, 1959 and scrapped in 1960.

successes

date	Surname	nationality	Tonnage (GRT)	success
0August 2, 1942	Maldonado	Uruguay	05,285	sunk ( location )
August 10, 1942	Alexia	United Kingdom	08,016	damaged
August 19, 1942	Cressington Court	United Kingdom	04,971	sunk ( location )
October 31, 1942	Alaska	Norway	05,681	damaged
0March 9, 1943	George G. Meade	United States	07.176	damaged
0March 9, 1943	James K. Polk	United States	07.177	sunk ( location )
0March 9, 1943	James Smith	United States	07.181	damaged
0March 9, 1943	Joseph Rodman Drake	United States	07.181	damaged
0March 9, 1943	Kelvin Bank	United Kingdom	03,872	sunk ( location )
0March 9, 1943	Mark Hanna	United States	07.176	damaged
0March 9, 1943	Tabitha Brown	United States	07.176	damaged
0March 9, 1943	Thomas Ruffin	United States	07.191	sunk ( location )
0July 8, 1943	BP Newton	Norway	10,324	sunk ( location )
0July 8, 1943	Eldena	United States	06,900	sunk ( location )
0July 8, 1943	Everagra	Latvia	03,702	damaged
July 10, 1943	Scandinavia	Sweden	01,641	sunk ( location )
February 22, 1944	EG Seubert	United States	09,181	sunk ( location )
February 22, 1944	Erling Brøvig	Norway	09,970	sunk ( location )
February 22, 1944	San Alvaro	United Kingdom	07,385	sunk ( location )
0March 7, 1944	Tarifa	Norway	07,229	sunk ( location )
March 19, 1944	John A. Poor	United States	07.176	sunk ( location )
March 27, 1944	HMS Maaløy (J 136)	United Kingdom	00249	sunk ( location )
February 23, 1945	Point Pleasant Park	Canada	07.136	sunk ( location )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , pp. 229-232.
2. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , pp. 61-62.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , p. 495.
4. ^ ^{A b c d e} Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939–1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , p. 496.
5. ↑ Clay Blair : Clay Blair: The Submarine War. Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942–1945. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-16059-2 , p. 441.
6. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 3: German submarine successes from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0513-4 , pp. 217-218.

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