U 565
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | 41 992 |
| Shipyard: | Blohm & Voss , Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | October 24, 1939 |
| Build number: | 541 |
| Keel laying: | March 30, 1940 |
| Launch: | February 20, 1941 |
| Commissioning: | April 10, 1941 |
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| Flotilla: |
1st U-Flotilla training boat |
| Calls: | 21 activities |
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| Whereabouts: | in the September 24, 1944 Salamis scuttled |
U 565 was a German Type VII C submarine of the German Navy that was used in World War II.
history
The boat was put into service on April 10, 1941 by Oblt.zS Johann Jebsen . U 565 belonged to the 1st U-Flotilla from April 10 to December 31, 1941. It was used as a training boat until June, after which it was used as a front boat. From January 1, 1942, the boat was part of the 29th U-Flotilla. On March 17, 1942, Captain Wilhelm Franken took over the boat. From October 8, 1943, Kptlt. Fritz Henning commanded U 565 until it scuttled. During his service, U 565 wore various designs as coats of arms and malings on the tower. In addition to a roller-skating rat or a courting grouse, the boat temporarily carried a kneeling donkey as a reminiscence of the flotilla sign of the 29th U-Flotilla, to which it belonged from January 1942. The crew wore the lettering FDU Bayern as a hat badge .
Calls
U 565 sank three merchant ships with a tonnage of 11,347 GRT and two warships with 6,990 tons on 21 operations . Two other merchant ships (17,565 GRT) were damaged. The cruiser Naiad ( Lage ) was sunk on March 11, 1942 by Kptlt. Jebsen. The remaining sinkings of U 565 took place under the command of Kptlt. Franken. Kptlt. Henning could not achieve any sinkings. On April 20, 1943, U 565 sank the armed French troop transport Sidi Bel Abbès ( Lage ), which was traveling in a convoy , off the coast of Algeria. Of the 1287 men on board, 834 were killed.
Sinking
On September 19, 1944, U 565 was badly damaged by American bombers of the 15th USAAF in the Mediterranean Sea near Scaramanga at position 37 ° 57 ′ N , 23 ° 34 ′ E. Five crew members died in the attack. On September 24, 1944, the boat was sunk with three depth charges due to its damage at the base in Salamis .
literature
- Helmut Jacksch: U 565. The boat and its people. Carhistory, Moosthenning 2006, ISBN 3-939244-00-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 42.
- ↑ 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. 371.
- ^ 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. 123.
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes Verlag, Graefelfing vor München 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 , p. 231.
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