U 805

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U 805
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German submarine U-805 being escorted to Portsmouth Navy Yard in May 1945.jpg
U 805 is brought to Portsmouth, New Hampshire after the surrender
Type : IX C / 40
Field Post Number : M - 41 091
Shipyard: Deschimag Seebeck shipyard , Bremerhaven - Geestemünde
Construction contract: April 10, 1941
Build number: 714
Keel laying: December 24, 1942
Launch: March 17, 1943
Commissioning: February 12, 1944
Commanders:

February 12, 1944 to May 14, 1945
Corvette Captain Richard Bernardelli

Flotilla:
Calls: 1 patrols
Sinkings:

no

Whereabouts: capitulated at Portsmouth , New Hampshire on May 14, 1945 (52 prisoners of war) and sunk on February 4, 1946

U 805 was one of the Navy in World War II employed submarine of type IX C / 40 . The submarine could not sink or damage ships and was handed over to the US Navy on May 14, 1945 - after the surrender of the Wehrmacht - near Portsmouth , New Hampshire .

Construction and equipment

U 805 had a water displacement of 1144 t at the surface and 1257 t under water. It was a total of 87.6 m long, 7.5 m wide, 10.2 m high with a 68.5 m long and 4.4 m wide pressure hull and had a draft of 5.35 m. The submarine built in the Deschimag Seebeck shipyard in Bremerhaven - Geestemünde was powered by two MAN four-stroke diesel engines M9V40 / 46, each with 9 cylinders and an output of 3240 kW, with two electric motors from Siemens-Schuckertwerke with an output of 370 kW for underwater operation driven. It had two drive shafts with two 1.92 m propellers. The boat was suitable for diving to a depth of 150 m as a regular diving depth, up to a maximum of 200 m.

The submarine reached speeds of up to 13.2 knots on the surface and up to 7.3 knots under water. When surfaced, the boat could travel up to 13,850 nautical miles at 10 knots and up to 63 nautical miles submerged at 4 knots. U 805 had six 533 mm torpedo tubes - four at the bow and two at the stern - and 22 torpedoes , a 10.5 cm SK C / 32 rapid-loading cannon with 180 rounds of ammunition, a 3.7 cm SK C flak / 30 and a 2 cm FlaK C / 30.

team

The crew strength of the submarine was 48 to 60 men. On his last trip there were 52 men.

Calls

After its commissioning, U 805 served under the command of Lieutenant Richard Bernardelli (1915–1991) as a training boat from February 13, 1944 and was first tested in Wesermünde, then in various Baltic ports . From January 23 to February 10, 1945 it was equipped in Kiel for the first patrol. Then it was moved via Horten (Norway) and Kristiansand to Trondheim , where it arrived on March 3, 1945. On March 11, 1945 U 805 left the port of Trondheim to operate as part of the submarine group "Seewolf" in the North Atlantic off the east coast of the USA. There are no successes of sinking. On April 24, 1945, U 805, northwest of the Azores, witnessed the sinking of U 546 , which had sunk the US destroyer USS Frederick C. Davis shortly before , by several US destroyers in the course of Operation Teardrop . Although U 805 was also initially located, it managed to escape. After the surrender of the Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945, U 805 with its 52-man crew surrendered to the Americans on May 16, 1945 in Portsmouth (New Hampshire) .

Whereabouts of the submarine

After the surrender, the boat was awarded to the USA and carried out a victory voyage under the flag of the USA along the east coast of the USA ("Victory Visits"). On February 4, 1946, U 805 was sunk in Operation Scuppered of the US Navy off the Atlantic coast of the USA by the submarine Sirago (SS-485) .

See also

literature

  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. Preface by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rohwer, Member of the Presidium of the International Commission on Military History. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 , p. 27.
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: Submarine construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , pp. 145, 217.
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: The German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2008, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 , p. 397.
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maas: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 3: Submarines, auxiliary cruisers, mine ships, net layers. Bernhard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7637-4802-4 .
  • Clay Blair : The Submarine War - The Hunted 1942–1945 . Heyne Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-453-16059-2 , pp. 799, 805.
  • Philip K. Lundeberg: Operation Teardrop Revisited . In: Timothy J. Runyan, Jan M. Copes (Eds.): To Die Gallantly - The Battle of the Atlantic . Westview Press, Boulder 1994, ISBN 0-8133-8815-5 .

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