U 867

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U 867
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Type : IX C / 40
Field Post Number : 54 950
Shipyard: Deschimag ( AG Weser ), Bremen
Construction contract: August 25, 1941
Build number: 1075
Keel laying: February 5, 1943
Launch: August 24, 1943
Commissioning: December 12, 1943
Commanders:

Arved von Mühlendahl

Flotilla:

4th U-Flotilla training boat
December 12th - August 31st 1944
11th U-Flotilla front boat
September 1st - 19th 1944

Calls: an enterprise
Sinkings:

no

Whereabouts: Sunk by air raid in the North Sea on September 19, 1944

U 867 was a German submarine from the IX C / 40 , which was used by the German navy during the submarine war in World War II in the North Sea .

construction

U 867 was built as one of 11 class IX C boats at the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen . The boat was part of the series that included the boats U 865 to U 870 . 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. U 867 was put into service on December 12, 1943 by Captain Arved von Mühlendahl. Like many boats of its time, the U 870 also had a coat of arms on the tower . It was the flotilla sign of the 11th U-Flotilla, a polar bear standing upright in front of the silhouette of a submarine tower.

Commitment and history

After commissioning, U 867 was assigned to the 4th submarine flotilla as a training boat, which was stationed in Stettin . Until autumn 1944, Commander von Mühlendahl undertook training trips in the Baltic Sea from here to test the boat and to train the crew. On September 8th, he left Kiel for his only venture with this boat. Von Mühlendahl had the order to set up a weather radio on land on the coast of Labrador . In addition to the technical equipment that was transported in the torpedo tubes, the boat had taken a meteorologist on board for this purpose.

A few days after sailing, both diesel engines of the U 867 failed . On September 17, Commander von Mühlendahl sent a radio message in which he asked for assistance, as the engines could no longer be started with on-board resources. Two days later, U 867 was discovered northwest of Bergen by a Liberator bomber and sunk with depth charges. When the boat was sunk, there were no survivors. The bodies of six crew members, including Commander von Mühlendahl, washed up on the Norwegian coast a few days later.

Individual evidence

  1. Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 , Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 . Page 199
  2. ^ A b Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939–1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , page 152.

literature

  • 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 .