U 745
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | 52 636 |
| Shipyard: | Schichau-Werke , Danzig |
| Construction contract: | June 5, 1941 |
| Build number: | 1548 |
| Keel laying: | July 8, 1942 |
| Launch: | April 16, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | June 19, 1943 |
| Commanders: |
Wilhelm von Trotha |
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| Calls: | 4 activities |
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| Whereabouts: | in on Jan. 30, 1945 Gulf of Finland dropped |
U 745 was a submarine of the German Navy that was used in World War II. It was a Type VII C boatand was mostly used in the Baltic Sea .
Commitment and history
The submarine was commanded by Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm von Trotha from 1943 until its total loss on January 30, 1945 . Until May 1944, U 745 was assigned to the 8th U-Flotilla , a training flotilla that was stationed in Danzig . During this time von Trotha undertook training trips in the Baltic Sea to bring the boat in and to train the crew. On the night of November 20, 1943, U 745 collided with U 769 in the Danzig Bay , which sank due to the severe damage it suffered. The crew was picked up by U 745 , there were no losses. In May 1944, U 745 was assigned to the 8th U-Flotilla as a front boat.
On May 24, 1944 was U 745 from Kiel made from first to his company. Von Trotha was given the task of patrolling Norway. On this venture, U 745 was assigned to the submarine group "Mitte". This consisted of 21 boats, which took up a defensive position off the Norwegian coast and were involved in fierce fighting with the bombers and fighters of the RAF Coastal Command . After six of the boats were sunk and five others were damaged, the submarine group "Mitte" was disbanded. U 745 arrived in Bergen on July 7th . The U 745 undertook the following operations in front of the mouth of the Narva and in the Gulf of Finland.
During his patrols with this boat von Trotha sank two Soviet ships, namely the anti-mine vehicles T-45 Antikajnen (No. 48) on August 26, 1944 and the T-76 Korall on January 11, 1945. The Korall was one Formerly a Lithuanian mine clearer that was built at the Schichau Seebeck shipyard in Bremerhaven .
Loss of the boat
U 745 sank in the Gulf of Finland on January 30, 1945 after it got into the Finnish sea mine field "Vantaa3", south of the Hanko peninsula. No crew member survived the sinking and only the body of the commander Wilhelm von Trotha was washed ashore on the island of Föglö and could be buried. U 745 was located and verified by chance in 2011 during ground surveys by a Finnish group of divers who originally wanted to investigate U 676 , which had also sunk in the former minefield there . An English-language documentary was filmed by the National Geographic broadcaster about the work and discoveries of the diving group on site as well as the military science analyzes of the submarine verification .
literature
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat 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 . Page 172
- ^ Entry from June 3, 1944 in the "Chronik des Seekrieges" (online version) by Jürgen Rohwer and Gerhard Hümmelchen
- ↑ 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 . Page 292 - page 293
- ↑ spiegel.de: Video (45 minutes)
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