U 573
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | M-00 412 |
| Shipyard: | Blohm & Voss , Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | October 24, 1939 |
| Build number: | 549 |
| Keel laying: | June 8, 1940 |
| Launch: | April 17, 1941 |
| Commissioning: | June 5, 1941 |
| Commanders: |
June 5, 1941 - May 2, 1942 |
| Calls: | 4 activities |
| Sinkings: |
1 ship (5,289 GRT) |
| Whereabouts: | interned on May 2, 1942 in Cartagena, Spain and sold to Spain on August 2, 1942, became the Spanish submarine S-01 and was in service until 1970. |
U 573 was a submarine from the Type VII C , which in World War II by the German navy was used.
history
The order for the boat was awarded to Blohm & Voss , Hamburg , on October 24, 1939 . The keel was laid on June 8, 1940 and the launch in April 1941. The commissioning under Lieutenant Heinrich Heinsohn took place on June 5, 1941.
U 573 undertook four enemy voyages during its service, during which a ship was sunk.
Use statistics
| Patrol | Port of departure | date | Port of entry | return | commander | Sinkings |
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| 1. | Kiel | September 27, 1941 | Saint-Nazaire | November 15, 1941 | Captain Heinrich Heinsohn | |
| 2. | Saint-Nazaire | December 7, 1941 | Pola | December 30, 1941 | Kptlt. Heinrich Heinsohn |
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| 3. | Pola | February 2, 1942 | Pola | March 6, 1942 | Kptlt. Heinrich Heinsohn | |
| 4th | Pola | April 19, 1942 | Cartagena | May 2, 1942 | Kptlt. Heinrich Heinsohn |
Whereabouts
On April 29, 1942, U 573 from an airplane of the RAF northwest of Algiers in position 37 ° 0 ' N , 1 ° 0' W with water bombs attacked. The boat was hit with three depth charges, one of which hit. Two more detonated about ten meters away. One man was killed. The boat tried to dive, but the circling Hudson could see it reappear immediately within a floating puddle of oil. Thick smoke billowed from the tower and some of the crew appeared on the upper deck and raised their hands. The Hudson stopped its attacks, but had to turn off after half an hour, give up observation due to lack of fuel and return to its base. So U 573 was able to escape badly damaged to Cartagena in Spain, where it arrived on May 2, 1942. The Spanish authorities gave three months to repair, which sparked several strong protests from the British Embassy in Madrid. Since the boat could not be repaired due to its serious damage at this time, it was in Spain at a price of 1.5 million Reichsmark sold and Spain one day before the deadline for the repair on August 2, 1942 as S-01 over .
In 1947 it ran out after its repair and was decommissioned in 1970 and auctioned for 3,334,751 pesetas . Despite efforts to secure it as a museum, it was scrapped in 1971.
Kptlt. Heinsohn returned to Germany in March 1943 and took over U 438 . The boat was sunk on May 6, 1943 by a depth charge, killing the entire crew.
See also
Web links
- u-bootarchiv.de , a detailed site about German submarines (German)
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. 47.
- ^ U-573. uboat.net, accessed May 18, 2010 .
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes Verlag, Graefelfing vor München 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 , p. 83.
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