U 67 (Navy)

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U 67 (Kriegsmarine)
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U 67 in the dry bunker in Lorient, France
Type : IX C
Field Post Number : M 26 049
Shipyard: AG Weser , Bremen
Construction contract: August 7, 1939
Build number: 986
Keel laying: April 5, 1940
Launch: October 30, 1940
Commissioning: January 22, 1941
Commanders:
Calls: 8 patrols
Sinkings:

13 ships (72,138 GRT)

Whereabouts: sunk in the Sargasso Sea on July 16, 1943
Docking maneuvers of U 67 when entering Lorient

U 67 was a German submarine of type IX C , which in World War II by the German navy was used.

history

The contract to build the submarine was awarded to AG Weser in Bremen on August 7, 1939 . The keel was laid on April 5, 1940, the launch on October 30, 1940, and the commissioning under Lieutenant Heinrich Bleichrodt finally took place on January 22, 1941.

After its commissioning on January 22, 1941, until its sinking July 16, 1943, the boat belonged as a training or front boat in the 2nd U-Flotilla in Wilhelmshaven and Lorient .

U 67 undertook seven patrols during its service , on which it sank thirteen ships with a total tonnage of 72,138 GRT and damaged five with 29,726 GRT.

The boat was the first German submarine to be equipped with an anti-location coating made of rubber sheets. With this coating, called Alberich , tests were carried out from July 29, 1941 to August 12, 1941 in the Baltic Sea and together with the test ship Strahl in the Lofjord near Trondheim .

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First patrol

The boat left Bergen on August 19, 1941 at 7:00 p.m. and entered Lorient on August 29, 1941 at 10:05 a.m. No ships were sunk or damaged on this ten-day and 2,527.5 nm above and 80.5 nm underwater undertaking to transfer the boat to France .

Second patrol

The boat left Lorient on September 14, 1941 at 8:00 p.m. and returned there on October 16, 1941 at 2:25 p.m. On this 32-day, 6,249 nm above and 28 nm underwater expedition in the Central Atlantic and the Cape Verde Islands , a ship with 3,753 GRT was sunk.

  • September 24, 1941: sinking of the British steamer St. Clair II ( Lage ) with 3,753 GRT. The steamer was sunk by a torpedo . He had loaded 4,029 t of palm kernels and 3.5 t of palm oil and was on the way from Lagos via Freetown to Liverpool . The ship belonged to convoy SL-87 with eleven ships. There were 13 dead and 31 survivors.

Third patrol

The boat left Lorient on November 26, 1941 at 1.30 p.m. and returned there on December 26, 1941 at 1 p.m. No ships were sunk or damaged on this 30-day, 5,788 nm above and 256 nm underwater expedition in the North Atlantic and west of Gibraltar .

Fourth patrol

The boat left Lorient on January 19, 1942 at 5.45 p.m. and returned there on March 30, 1942 at 10.30 a.m. During this 70-day and approx. 9,950 nm above and 420 nm underwater expedition in the western Atlantic , the Caribbean and Curaçao , two ships with 17,903 GRT were sunk and one ship with 3,177 GRT was damaged.

  • February 16, 1942: Damage to the Dutch tanker Rafaela with 3,177 GRT. The tanker was damaged by a torpedo. He had loaded crude oil and was on his way from Maracaibo to Curaçao . He was brought into Willemstad on February 16, 1942 by two tugs. The ship sank aground in St. Anna Bay, but was lifted and repaired.
  • February 21, 1942: sinking of the Norwegian tanker Kongsgaard with 9,467 GRT. The tanker was sunk by two torpedoes. He had loaded 14,601 tons of crude oil and was on the way from Puerto La Cruz to Aruba . There were 38 dead and eight survivors.
  • March 14, 1942: sinking of the Panamanian tanker Penelope ( Lage ) with 8,436 GRT. The tanker was sunk by two torpedoes. He had loaded crude oil and was on his way from Caripito ( Venezuela ) to Halifax . There were two dead and 49 survivors.

Fifth patrol

The boat left Lorient on May 20, 1942 at 9:35 p.m. and returned there on August 8, 1942 at 2:37 p.m. On this 80-day and approx. 1,000 nm over and 510 nm underwater expedition into the West Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Greater Antilles and the Gulf of Mexico , six ships with 30,015 GRT were sunk and two ships with 14,831 GRT were damaged.

  • June 16, 1942: sinking of the Nicaraguan steamer Managua ( Lage ) with 2,220 GRT. The steamer was sunk by a torpedo. He had general cargo loaded and was on his way from Charleston to Havana . There were no casualties, 25 survivors.
  • June 20, 1942: Damage to the Norwegian tanker Nortind with 8,221 GRT. The tanker was damaged by a torpedo. He ran into New Orleans on June 20, 1942 . The ship was sunk by U 358 on January 26, 1943 .
  • June 23, 1942: sinking of the American tanker Rawleigh Warner ( Lage ) with 3,664 GRT. The tanker was sunk by two torpedoes. He was carrying 38,909 barrels of gasoline and was en route from Smiths Bluff, Texas to St. Joe, Florida . It was a total loss with 33 dead.
  • June 29, 1942: Sinking of the British tanker Empire Mica ( Lage ) with 8,032 GRT. The tanker was sunk by two torpedoes. He had loaded 12,000 tons of purified oil and was on his way from Houston and New Orleans via Key West to Great Britain. There were 33 dead and 14 survivors.
  • July 6, 1942: sinking of the Norwegian motor ship Bayard with 2,160 GRT. The ship was sunk by a torpedo. It had 2,099 tons of general cargo loaded and was on its way from New Orleans to Colon . There were 11 dead and 21 survivors.
  • July 7, 1942: The US tanker Paul H. Harwood with 6,610 GRT is damaged . The tanker was damaged by a torpedo. He was on his way from New York to Port Arthur . The ship entered Port Helen on July 10, 1942.
  • July 10, 1942: Sinking of the US tanker Benjamin Brewster with 5,950 GRT. The tanker was sunk by two torpedoes. He had 70,578 barrels of aviation fuel and light oil on his vehicle and was en route from Baytown to Tampa . There were 27 dead and 15 survivors.
  • July 13, 1942: sinking of the US tanker RW Gallagher ( Lage ) with 7,989 GRT. The tanker was sunk by two torpedoes. He had 83,000 barrels of fuel oil loaded and was en route from Baytown, Texas to Port Everglades, Florida. There were eight dead and 44 survivors.

Sixth patrol

The boat left Lorient on September 16, 1942 at 6:20 p.m. and returned there on December 21, 1942 at 10:26 a.m. The boat was supplied with 16 m³ of fuel by U 460 on December 11, 1942 . On this 96-day and approximately 11,650 nm above and 551 nm underwater operation in the western Atlantic and southwest of Trinidad , four ships with 20,467 GRT were sunk and two ships with 11,718 GRT were damaged.

  • October 25, 1942: sinking of the Norwegian motor ship Primero ( Lage ) with 4,414 GRT. The ship was sunk by two torpedoes. It drove in ballast, but still had 1,500 tons of salt on board and was on its way from Suez via Table Bay in South Africa and Trinidad to New York . There were two dead and 37 survivors.
  • November 8, 1942: Damage to the British steamer Capo Olmo with 4,712 GRT. The steamer was damaged by a torpedo. He was en route from Mombasa and Table Bay (South Africa) to Great Britain. The ship entered Trinidad on the same day.
  • November 9, 1942: sinking of the Norwegian steamer Nidarland ( Lage ) with 6,132 GRT. The steamer was sunk by two torpedoes. He had loaded 8,435 tons of zinc and 175 bars of silver and was on the way from Santa Fe and Buenos Aires to Trinidad. There was one dead and 34 survivors.
  • November 15, 1942: sinking of the British motor ship King Arthur ( Lage ) with 5,224 GRT. The ship was sunk by four torpedoes. It had loaded 5,200 tons of cotton and general cargo and was on its way from Alexandria via Port Elizabeth and Trinidad to Great Britain. There were no casualties, 37 survivors.
  • November 18, 1942: sinking of the Norwegian motor ship Tortugas with 4,697 GRT. The ship was sunk by a torpedo. It had 5515 t cargo including 1,400 bales of tea , 2,200 t of manganese ore and 1,000 tonnes of jute loaded and was on its way from Calcutta to the Saldanha Bay Table Bay (South Africa) and Trinidad to the River Clyde . The captain and the chief engineer were captured by U 67 .
  • November 28, 1942: Damage to the British motor ship Empire Glade with 7,006 GRT. The ship was damaged by artillery . It was on the way from Alexandria , Charleston via New York to Great Britain. There was one dead and 48 survivors. The ship entered Charleston on December 7, 1942.

Seventh patrol

The boat left Lorient on March 3, 1943 at 4:00 p.m. and returned there on April 13, 1943 at 10:00 a.m. No ships were sunk or damaged during this 41-day and approximately 6,500 nm over and 407 nm underwater expedition in the Central Atlantic, the Azorean Islands and the Canary Islands.

Eighth patrol

The boat left Lorient on May 10, 1943 and was sunk in the Atlantic on July 16, 1943. No ships were sunk or damaged on this 67-day venture into the west Atlantic, east of the Caribbean and the mid-Atlantic.

Whereabouts

On July 16, 1943, U 67 in the western Atlantic, in the Sargasso , by four Mk-47- Torpex - water bombs a TBF Avenger machine the squadron VC-13 of the US escort aircraft carrier USS core in position 30 ° 5 '  N , 44 ° 17 ′  W sunk in the naval grid square. 48 crew members were killed and three were saved.

U 67 lost a crew member during its service before sinking when an explosion occurred on October 27, 1942 while the torpedo was being loaded.

literature

  • Clay Blair : The Submarine War. Volume 1: The Hunters. 1939-1942. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-12345-X .
  • Clay Blair: The Submarine War. Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942–1945. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-16059-2 .
  • Robert M. Browning Jr .: US Merchant Vessel War casualties of World War II. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD 1996, ISBN 1-55750-087-8 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine 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 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 5: The knight's cross bearers of the submarine weapon from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg et al. 2003, ISBN 3-8132-0515-0 .
  • Erich Gröner : Die Handelsflotten der Welt 1942 and supplement 1944. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-469-00552-4 (reprint of the 1942–1943 edition).
  • Erich Gröner: Search list for ship names (= The merchant fleets of the world. Supplementary volume). JF Lehmanns Verlag Munich 1976, ISBN 3-469-00553-2 (reprint of the 1943 edition).
  • Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes Verlag, Graefelfing before Munich 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Beckh: Blitz & Anker. Information technology - history and background. Volume 2. Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2997-6 , p. 99 .