U 582
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | 46 477 |
| Shipyard: | Blohm and Voss in Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | January 8, 1940 |
| Keel laying: | February 1, 1940 |
| Launch: | June 12, 1941 |
| Commissioning: | August 7, 1941 |
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| Calls: | four ventures |
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six ships with 38,824 GRT sunk |
| Whereabouts: | Sunk on October 5, 1942 southwest of Iceland after an air raid |
U 582 was a German type VII C submarine , a so-called "Atlantic boat ". It was used by the Navy during the Second World War in the North and Central Atlantic and off the North American east coast.
Technical specifications
Before the start of the war, the Hamburg shipyard Blohm + Voss was not involved in the submarine building program of the Reich and Kriegsmarine. From 1939 onwards, however, the Hamburg shipyard's capacities were mainly used to build submarines. The efficient series production method of the shipyard was supposed to guarantee the annual production of 52 type VII C submarines, while 48 diesel engines for installation on boats of this type were also manufactured under license from MAN . The two diesel engines of the Type VII C boats achieved a speed of 17 knots when sailing above the water . Such a boat had a maximum range of 6500 nm . Under water, the two electric motors, each 375 hp , were usually used, guaranteeing a speed of 7.6 knots. U 582 had a coat of arms on the tower with an upright key and the number 807.
commitment
In the summer of 1942, U582 was assigned to the Hai submarine group , which sought combat with Allied convoys in the mid-Atlantic in accordance with the pack tactics developed by Karl Dönitz . On July 10th, Adalbert Schnee , the commander of U 201, discovered the convoy OS 33 and led the other boats of the Hai group by emitting short radio signals. In the convoy battle that followed, Commander Schulte succeeded in sinking two freighters. U 582 continued patrolling the West African coast and sank two more ships before commander Schulte decided to return to the base on the French Atlantic coast.
Sinking
On October 2, U 610 got in contact with a convoy that was en route from North America to Great Britain. HX 209 was efficiently secured by air forces stationed in Iceland and on the edge of their operational area in this region of the Atlantic. One of these Catalina reconnaissance aircraft sank U 582 on October 5, 1942.
literature
- Clay Blair : The Submarine War. Volume 1: The Hunters. 1939-1942. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-12345-X .
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 .
Notes and individual references
- ^ 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. 122.
- ↑ The abbreviation OS stands for Outbound South and denotes convoys that drove from Great Britain to Africa.