U 754
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.svg) The boat carried the coat of arms of Upper Austria on the tower |
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| Type : | VII C |
| Shipyard: | Kriegsmarine shipyard Wilhelmshaven |
| Construction contract: | October 9, 1939 |
| Build number: | 137 |
| Keel laying: | January 8, 1940 |
| Launch: | July 5, 1941 |
| Commissioning: | August 28, 1941 |
| Commanders: |
KptLt. Hans Oestermann |
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| Calls: | 3 activities |
| Sinkings: |
13 ships sunk with 55,658 |
| Whereabouts: | Sunk by air raid on July 31, 1942 |
U 754 was a German submarine from the Type VII C , which by the German Navy during the Second World War in the western Atlantic was used.
Technical specifications
A Type VII C submarine had a length of 67 m and a displacement of 865 m³ under water. It was propelled over water by two diesel engines that ensured a speed of 17 knots . Two electric motors produced a speed of 7 knots under water. Until 1944, the armament consisted of an 8.8 cm cannon and a 2.0 cm flak on deck as well as four bow torpedo tubes and a stern torpedo tube. On both sides of the tower , U 754 bore the coat of arms of Upper Austria .
Commitment and history
U 754 patrolled a total of three operations in the western Atlantic and directly off the North American east coast. Commander Oestermann sank 13 ships.
Sinking
At the end of July 1942 the U 754 was scuttled for the last time. Commander Oestermann had an American trawler shot at with the on-board gun. Seven American fishermen were wounded and five killed in the shelling. Oestermann's submarine was attacked by a Canadian Air Force light bomber three days later . The bridge watch only discovered the Hudson when the aircraft was already in a dive, so that the bomber was able to accurately place four depth charges on the boat. U 754 reappeared after a while, and the Hudson, which had circled over the sea for an hour, took the tower of the submarine under fire. After an explosion with an unknown cause, U 754 finally sank on July 31, 1942. The Hudson, which sank U 754 east of Boston , was the first Canadian aircraft to destroy a German submarine.
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 3: German submarine successes from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0513-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 144.