U 849
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| Type : | IX D2 |
| Field Post Number : | 51 402 |
| Shipyard: | (DeSchiMAG AG Weser ), Bremen |
| Construction contract: | January 20, 1941 |
| Build number: | 1055 |
| Keel laying: | January 20, 1942 |
| Launch: | October 31, 1942 |
| Commissioning: | March 11, 1943 |
| Commanders: |
Captain |
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| Calls: | 1 company |
| Sinkings: |
no depressions |
| Whereabouts: | Sunk by air raid on November 25, 1943 in the South Atlantic west of the Congo estuary. |
U 849 was a German submarine of type IX D2 , which in the Second World War was used. Boats of this class were also called "long-range submarines" because they had a long range. U 849 belonged to the Monsun submarine group , which operated in the Indian Ocean.
history
The building order for the boat was given to (DeSchiMAG AG Weser ) in Bremen on January 20, 1941 . This shipyard built all Type IX D submarines that were used by the Kriegsmarine in World War II , a total of 31. One year after the building contract was awarded, the boat with hull number 1055 was laid down on January 20, 1942. After a construction period of nine months and eleven days, the U 849 was launched and, after setting up and final completion, was put into service on March 11, 1943 by Lieutenant Heinz-Otto Schultze . The crew chose a bird as the boat emblem , which was pulled behind on a kind of leash. This symbol was an allusion to the "wagtail" called gyroplane from the Focke-Achgelis company , which the IX-D2 boats carried with them. After commissioning, the boat was assigned as a training boat to the 4th U-Flotilla in Stettin , where the boats were retracted and their boat crews were trained and prepared for future use. On October 2, 1943, the commander received the order to make his first patrol in this boat. The submarine left the port and was supposed to reach the Indian Ocean , but did not arrive there.
Whereabouts
On November 17, the US bomber squadron, the United States Navy Squadron VB-107, stationed on Ascension Island , was reported to have been traveling southwards from a German submarine. U 849 was tracked down this squadron on 25 November 1943 in the South Atlantic of two aircraft and west of the Congo -Mündung by depth charges of a US bomber , piloted by Lieutenant (junior grade) Marion Dawkins, with six water bombs attacked. Dawkins dropped the bombs from the very low height of just eight meters. One of the depth charges ricocheted off the deck of the German submarine, jumped into the air and damaged the horizontal stabilizer of the American bomber. The detonation of the densely placed on the boat water bombs recessed U 849 at position 6 ° 30 ' S , 5 ° 40' W . The crew or parts of them had already disembarked beforehand. Dawkins later reported seeing 30 survivors in the water. A life raft was dropped from the aircraft, but there were no survivors.
See also
literature
- Clay Blair : The Submarine War. Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942–1945. Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-16059-2 .
- Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Maling's German submarines 1939–1945. 4th edition. Koehler, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0826-9 , p. 149
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Urbes Verlag, Graefelfing before Munich 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 , p. 215.
- ↑ C. Blair: The Submarine War. Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942–1945. 1999, p. 543.
- ^ P. Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. 1998, p. 166.