U 883

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U 883
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Type : Type IX D / 42
Field Post Number : M-32 765
Shipyard: AG Weser , Bremen
Construction contract: April 2, 1942
Build number: 1091
Keel laying: June 27, 1943
Launch: April 28, 1944
Commissioning: March 27, 1945
Commanders:
  • 1st of May. 1944 to October 1, 1944
    Lieutenant Captain Hans-Ludwig Gaude (Building Instruction Commandant)
  • March 27, 1945 to May 5, 1945
    OblzS Johannes Uebel
Calls: no patrols
Sinkings:

no

Whereabouts: Sunk on December 31, 1945 as part of Operation Deadlight

U 883 was a submarine of the former German Kriegsmarine of the type U-Boot-Klasse IX D / 42 , which was used in World War II .

history

The basic development was made in 1942, but the U 883 was the only IXD / 42 submarine in service . On September 30, 1943, the Navy first informed the shipyard of the suspension . After another check of the feasibility of the project - especially with regard to the supplies - construction was resumed towards the end of the year. The sister boat U 884 was severely damaged by air raids on the factory premises under construction. Generally identical to type IXD2 . Commissioned at the end of March 1945, after which it was handed over to the Allied forces in Wilhelmshaven on May 8, 1945 .

It was sunk on December 31, 1945 as part of the post-war Operation Deadlight . (Location of the wreck: 55 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 55 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  W )

Technical specifications

The technical design of the type corresponds to that of type IX D 2.

  • Displacement: 1,616 m³ (above water), 1,804 m³ (submerged)
  • Length: 87.58 m (total external length), 68.50 m (pressure hull)
  • Width: 7.50 m (total), 4.40 m (pressure hull)
  • Height: 10.2 m
  • Draft: 5.35 m
  • Speed:
    • Max. 19.2 knots (35.5 km / h) (diesel drive, surface travel)
    • 6.9 knots (12.8 km / h) (electric drive, submerged)
  • Range:
    • 31,500 nm (58,338 km) at 10 knots (18.5 km / h) (diesel-electric, surface travel)
    • 57 nm at 4 knots (7.4 km / h) (electric drive, submerged).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 211.
  2. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 , p. 282.
  3. ↑ 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. 268.
  4. ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1996, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 , p. 199.

literature

  • Eberhard Möller, Werner Brack: Encyclopedia of German U-Boats. From 1904 to the present. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02245-1 .