U 854
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| Type : | IX C / 40 |
| Field Post Number : | 53 631 |
| Shipyard: | Deschimag AG Weser , Bremen |
| Construction contract: | June 6, 1941 |
| Build number: | 1060 |
| Keel laying: | September 21, 1942 |
| Launch: | April 5, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | July 19, 1943 |
| Commanders: |
Horst Weiher |
| Calls: | no |
| Sinkings: | |
| Whereabouts: | sunk on February 4, 1944, in the Baltic Sea north of Swinoujscie |
U 854 was atype IX C / 40 submarine of the former German Navy , which was used during the submarine war in World War II .
U 854 was on 21st September 1942 at the shipyard AG Weser in Bremen on keel laid and on 19th July 1943 put into service. The commandant of the boat was Kapitänleutnant Horst Weiher. After commissioning, the boat was assigned to the 4th U-Flotilla in Kiel for training the crew.
On February 4, 1944 , U 854 ran north of Swinoujscie , at position 54 ° 44 ' N , 14 ° 16' E , on a mine . This mine was part of a minefield, code named "Geranium", which had been brought down by the British Air Force .
When U 854 was sunk , 51 crew members were killed and seven more survived. On the Golm on the island of Usedom , a burial site was set up in the Swinoujscie-Golm cemetery for the fallen crew members.
literature
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 .
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