U 851
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| Type : | IX D2 |
| Field Post Number : | M-51 969 |
| Shipyard: | Deschimag AG Weser , Bremen |
| Construction contract: | January 20, 1941 |
| Build number: | 1057 |
| Keel laying: | March 18, 1942 |
| Launch: | January 15, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | May 21, 1943 |
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| Calls: | a patrol |
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| Whereabouts: | Lost in the North Atlantic since March 27, 1944 |
U 851 was a German Type IX D2 long -range submarine , which was used by the German Navy in the submarine war of the Second World War in the North Atlantic .
Construction and commissioning
The keel-laying of the great trans-Atlantic boat began on 18 March 1942 as the seventeenth unit of the type IX D2 at the Bremen shipyard AG Weser yard number 1057. The finished boat was on 15 January 1943 from the stack left and after completion of Remaining work put into service under the command of Corvette Captain Hannes Weingärtner. He put the small type II A boat U 4 into service on August 17, 1935 and took over the type II B boats U 10 and U 16 on September 30, 1937 . Hannes carried out his first patrols with U 16 and sank the neutral Swedish ship Nyland on September 28, 1939 because of its essential war freight. He left his U 16 on October 11, 1939 and commanded the 24th U-Flotilla stationed in Memel from November 1939 to July 1942 , until he came to Bremen for building instruction on U 851 . After the commissioning of his fourth submarine, he went to the Baltic Sea to familiarize the crew with their boat and to prepare them for the coming front mission. The boat's tower emblem was based on Weingärtner's name: a bunch of red grapes with two crossed shovels on a white plate. U 851 left the port of Kiel on February 26, 1944 for its first venture. The boat had a cargo of mercury for Japan in the keel and was supposed to join the Monsun group in the Indic and from there to Japan.
loss
On March 27, U 851 sent its last sign of life in the form of a weather report, which came from marine grid square CC 3398. Since then there has been radio silence between the BdU and Korvettenkapitän Weingärtner, who was still in possession of the mercury bottles. It seems that Karl Dönitz believed to the last that the boat had reached its destination. The official loss date is June 8, 1944. The position of U 851 when the radio message was released was 42 ° 20 'N, 46 ° 30' W. The 70-man crew also disappeared with the boat.
The crew of the U 851 under Weingärtner's command
This list is ordered by the first letter of the crew members' last names.
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literature
- 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 .
Web links
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. 150.