U 846
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| Type : | Type IX C / 40 |
| Field Post Number : | 51 907 |
| Shipyard: | Deschimag AG Weser , Bremen |
| Construction contract: | January 20, 1941 |
| Build number: | 1052 |
| Keel laying: | July 21, 1942 |
| Launch: | February 17, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | May 29, 1943 |
| Commanders: |
Berthold Hashagen |
| Flotilla: |
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| Calls: | two ventures |
| Sinkings: |
an airplane |
| Whereabouts: | On May 4, 1944 in the Bay of Biscay dropped |
U 846 was a type IX C / 40 submarinethat was used by the Navy during the Second World War in submarine warfare, among other things as a weather boat .
Technical specifications
AG Weser had been commissioned to build submarines for the Reichsmarine and the Kriegsmarine since 1934, circumventing the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . After the start of the war , the shipyard switched its production mainly to submarine construction. Construction contracts for the larger submarine classes, especially the various types of submarine class IX and submarine class XXI , were primarily awarded to the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen. U 846 was part of the seventh construction contract that went to the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen after the start of the war. It was one of 17 Type IX C / 40 boats that were delivered to the Navy in 1943. A boat of this type was 76 m long and 6.84 m in diameter. It reached a speed of 18.3 knots when sailing above water and drove a maximum of 7.5 knots under water. The boat was put into service on May 29, 1943 by Oberleutnant zur See der Reserve Berthold Hashagen. Hashagen had completed his submarine training in 1942 and was the first watch officer on U 515 to take part in two operations under the command of Werner Henke .
Commitment and history
Commander Berthold Hashagen transferred the boat to the Baltic Sea . Until November 1943, U 846 was subordinate to the 4th U-Flotilla , a training flotilla stationed in Stettin . During this time, Commander Hashagen undertook training trips with the boat in the Baltic Sea to train the crew and to retract the boat.
On December 4, 1943 was U 846 from Kiel made from first to his company. The boat patrolled the North Atlantic , particularly west of Ireland . On this enterprise U 846 determined weather data. On March 3, 1944, the boat entered Lorient . From here the boat left for its second expedition on April 29th.
Sinking
A few days after leaving the port on May 2, U 846 was attacked by a Halifax bomber from the 58th Squadron of the Royal Air Force . The submarine crew managed to shoot down the enemy aircraft. Two days later, on May 4, 1944 the boat was in the Bay of Biscay during an air raid in the early morning of one with light Leigh equipped Wellington fighter aircraft of the 407th Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force by depth charges sunk.
literature
- Clay Blair : The Submarine War. Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942–1945. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-16059-2 .
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 , p. 199.
- ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 , pp. 91-92.
- ^ Axel Niestlé: German U-Boat Losses during World War II. Details of Destruction. Frontline Books, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-84832-210-3 , p. 131.