U 858
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 U 858 after the capitulation at Cape Henlopen ( Delaware ) |
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| Type : | IX C / 40 |
| Field Post Number : | M- 52 646 |
| Shipyard: | Deschimag AG Weser , Bremen |
| Construction contract: | June 5, 1941 |
| Build number: | 1064 |
| Keel laying: | December 11, 1942 |
| Launch: | June 17, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | September 30, 1943 |
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September 29, 1943 to May 14, 1945 |
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| Calls: | 2 patrols |
| Sinkings: |
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| Whereabouts: | capitulated on May 14, 1945 at Cape Henlopen ( Delaware ) (55 prisoners of war) and sunk on November 20, 1947 |
U 858 was one of the Navy in World War II employed submarine of type IX C / 40 . The submarine could not sink or damage ships and was handed over to the US Navy on May 14, 1945 - after the surrender of the Wehrmacht - off Cape Henlopen ( Delaware ) .
Construction and equipment
U 858 had a water displacement of 1144 t at the surface and 1257 t under water. It was a total of 87.6 m long, 7.5 m wide, 10.2 m high with a 68.5 m long and 4.4 m wide pressure hull and had a draft of 5.35 m. The submarine built by the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen, which belongs to the Deschimag group , was powered by two MAN four-stroke diesel engines M9V40 / 46, each with 9 cylinders and a total output of 4400 HP (3240 KW), when operated underwater two electric motors from Siemens-Schuckertwerke with an output of 370 kW (500 PS). It had two drive shafts with two 1.92 m propellers. The boat was suitable for diving to a depth of 150 m as a regular diving depth, up to a maximum of 200 m.
The submarine reached speeds of up to 13.2 knots on the surface and up to 7.3 knots under water. When surfaced, the boat could travel up to 13,850 nautical miles at 10 knots and up to 63 nautical miles submerged at 4 knots. U 858 had six 533 mm torpedo tubes - four at the bow and two at the stern - and 22 torpedoes , a 10.5 cm SK C / 32 rapid-loading cannon with 180 rounds of ammunition, and a 3.7 cm SK C flak / 30 and a 2 cm FlaK C / 30.
team
The crew strength of the submarine was 48 to 60 men. On his last trip there were 55 men.
Calls
After its commissioning, U 858 served as a training boat under the command of Lieutenant Thilo Bode (1918–2014) from September 29, 1943 to April 1, 1944 and was tested; In addition, a snorkel was installed in Wesermünde . By June 11, 1944, it was equipped for the first patrol in Kiel . On June 12, 1944, U 858 left the port of Kiel and, after a brief stop in Kristiansand, operated as a weather boat in the North Atlantic, but was not successful in scuttling. The return journey took place via Farsund , Kristiansand and Larvik to the destination port of Flensburg , which was reached on October 4, 1944. At the beginning of March, U 858 was relocated to Horten (Norway) via Kiel and Korsör .
On March 11, 1945, U 858 left the port of Horten to operate as part of the submarine group "Seewolf" in the North Atlantic off the east coast of the USA. It could not sink ships and had no contact with the enemy at all. After the surrender of the Wehrmacht, Thilo Bode surrendered to the US destroyer USS Pillsbury (DE-133) on May 10, 1945 with U 858 and its crew of 55 and ran into Fort Miles in Lewes (Delaware) on May 14, 1945 a.
Whereabouts of the submarine
After the surrender, the boat was awarded to the USA. On November 20, 1947 U 858 was sunk by the submarine Sirago (SS-485) when the US Navy tried to torpedo .
See also
literature
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. Preface by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rohwer, Member of the Presidium of the International Commission on Military History. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1996, p. 31. ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 .
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: Submarine construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1997, pp. 129, 211. ISBN 978-3-8132-0512-1 .
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: The German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2008, pp. 290, 292, 397. ISBN 978-3-8132-0514-5 .
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maas: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 3: Submarines, auxiliary cruisers, mine ships, net layers. Bernhard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7637-4802-4 .
- Clay Blair : The Submarine War - The Hunted 1942–1945 . Heyne Verlag, 1999. pp. 749, 799. ISBN 3-4531-6059-2 .
- Philip K. Lundeberg: Operation Teardrop Revisited . In: Timothy J. Runyan, Jan M. Copes (Eds.): To Die Gallantly - The Battle of the Atlantic . Westview Press, Boulder 1994. ISBN 0-8133-8815-5 .
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