U 82 (Navy)

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U 82 (Kriegsmarine)
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Coat of arms of Coburg during the Nazi era, tower coat of arms of U 82
Type : VII C
Field Post Number : M 40 885
Shipyard: Vegesacker shipyard , Bremen
Construction contract: January 25, 1939
Build number: 010
Keel laying: May 15, 1940
Launch: March 15, 1941
Commissioning: May 14, 1941
Commanders:

May 14, 1941 - February 6, 1942
First Lieutenant Siegfried Rollmann

Calls: 3 activities
Sinkings:
  • 8 ships (51,859 GRT)
  • 1 warship (1,190 t)
Whereabouts: Sunk on February 6, 1942 in the North Atlantic north of the Azores

U 82 was a German submarine of type VIIC that in World War II by the German navy was used.

history

The construction contract for this boat was awarded to the Vegesacker shipyard on January 25, 1939 . The keel was laid on May 15, 1940 and the launch on March 15, 1941. On May 14, 1941, it was put into service under First Lieutenant Siegfried Rollmann. The boat carried the coat of arms of its godfather city Coburg on the tower. The coat of arms of the Upper Franconian city at that time showed a fallen sword with a swastika in the pommel on a gold and black background.

The boat belonged to the 3rd U-Flotilla in Kiel as a training boat until August 31, 1941 and then as a front boat to the same flotilla based in La Pallice / La Rochelle .

Use statistics

Commandant Siegfried Rollmann led U 82 on three operations during his service, on which he sank nine ships with a total tonnage of 53,049  GRT and damaged one with a tonnage of 1,999 GRT.

First venture

The boat was launched on August 11, 1941 at 14:00 of Trondheim , and on 18 September 1941 at 16:00 in Lorient one. On this 39-day and approximately 6,000 nm long journey in the North Atlantic and south of Iceland , four ships with a total of 24,362 GRT were sunk and one ship with 1,980 GRT was damaged.

  • September 10, 1941: sinking of the British steamer Empire Hudson ( Lage ) with 7,465 GRT. The steamer was sunk by a torpedo . He had loaded 9,562 tons of wheat and was on the way from Halifax via Sydney to Liverpool . The ship belonged to convoy SC 42 with 65 ships. There were four dead and 63 survivors.
  • September 11, 1941: sinking of the British tanker Bulysses ( Lage ) with 7,519 GRT. The tanker was sunk by a torpedo. He had loaded 9,300 tons of light oil and was on the way from New York via Sydney (Nova Scotia) to Stanlow . The ship belonged to convoy SC 42. There was one dead and 59 survivors.
  • September 11, 1941: sinking of the British steamer Gypsum Queen ( Lage ) with 3,915 GRT. The steamer was sunk by a torpedo. He had loaded 5,500 tons of sulfate and was on his way from New Orleans via Sydney (Nova Scotia) to Glasgow . The ship belonged to convoy SC 42. There were ten dead and 26 survivors.
  • September 11, 1941: sinking of the British steamer Empire Crossbill ( Lage ) with 5,463 GRT. The steamer was sunk by a torpedo. He had loaded 6,668 t of steel and 4 t of relief supplies and was on the way from Philadelphia via Sydney (Nova Scotia) to Hull . The ship belonged to convoy SC 42. It was a total loss with 49 dead.
  • September 11, 1941: Damage to the Swedish steamer Scania with 1,980 GRT. The steamer was damaged by a torpedo and sunk by U 202 on the same day . The ship belonged to convoy SC 42.

Second venture

The boat left Lorient on October 15, 1941 at 1:30 p.m. and returned there on November 19, 1941 at 5:00 p.m. U 82 belonged to the groups "Schlagetot" and "Raubritter". On this 36 day long and approx. 5,600 nm above and 140 nm underwater expedition in the North Atlantic west of Ireland , two ships with a total of 9,380 GRT were sunk.

  • October 21, 1941: sinking of the British steamer Serbino ( Lage ) with 4,099 GRT. The steamer was sunk by a torpedo. He had loaded 3,500 tons of freight and 1,355 tons of sisal fibers and was on his way from Mombasa via Freetown to Liverpool. The ship belonged to convoy SL 89 with 23 ships. There were 14 dead and 51 survivors.
  • October 21, 1941: sinking of the British steamer Treverbyn ( Lage ) with 5,281 GRT. The steamer was sunk by a torpedo. He had loaded 6,900 tons of iron ore and was on the way from Pepel ( Sierra Leone ) via Freetown (Sierra Leone) to Cardiff . The ship belonged to convoy SL 89. It was a total loss with 46 dead.

Third company

The boat left La Pallice on January 11, 1942 and was sunk on February 6, 1942. Two ships with a total of 18,117 GRT and a destroyer with 1,190 t were sunk on this 26-day undertaking in the western Atlantic between the Newfoundland Bank and Cape Sable and off Nova Scotia .

  • January 22, 1942: sinking of the British tanker Athelcrown ( Lage ) with 11,999 GRT. The tanker was sunk by a torpedo. He was ballasted and en route from Cardiff and Belfast to Aruba . The ship belonged to convoy ON 56 with 36 ships. There were four dead and 46 survivors.
  • January 23, 1942: sinking of the Norwegian tanker Leiesten ( Lage ) with 6,118 GRT. The tanker was sunk by a torpedo. He was ballasted and on his way from Manchester to Baton Rouge . The ship belonged to convoy ON 56.
  • January 31, 1942: Sinking of the British destroyer HMS Belmont ( Lage ) with 1,190 t. The destroyer was sunk by a torpedo. He probably belonged to convoy NA 2. There were 138 deaths.

Whereabouts

On 6 February 1942, U 82 in the North Atlantic north of the Azores , in the attack on the convoy OS 18, by depth charges of the British sloop HMS Rochester and the British corvette HMS Tamarisk in position 44 ° 10 'North, 23 ° 52' West in Marine grid square BE 7467 sunk. All 45 crew members were killed.

U 82 did not lose any crew members during its service life before the sinking.

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).
  • Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Maling's German submarines 1939–1945. 4th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0826-9 .
  • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , page 52