U 889
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 The boat was handed over to the Canadian Navy on May 13, 1945 |
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| Type : | IX C / 40 |
| Field Post Number : | M-37,894 |
| Shipyard: | AG Weser ( Deschimag ), Bremen |
| Construction contract: | September 22, 1942 |
| Build number: | 1097 |
| Keel laying: | September 13, 1943 |
| Launch: | April 5, 1944 |
| Commissioning: | 4th August 1944 |
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| Calls: | 1 patrol |
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| Whereabouts: | Handed over to the Canadian Navy on May 13, 1945 and sunk in 1947. |
U 889 was a Type IXC / 40 - Submarine of the former German Navy in World War II . After the German surrender , it was handed over to the Canadian Navy on May 13, 1945 .
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education
U 889 went through from August 4, 1944 to March 14, 1945 as a training boat in the Baltic Sea with the 4th U-Flotilla , a training flotilla stationed in Stettin , the training for the front boat. From March 15, 1945 it was under the 33rd U-Flotilla , a front flotilla stationed in Flensburg , as a front boat.
Relocation to Norway
Under its commandant , Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Braeucker (1919-2010), it ran from Kiel on March 26, 1945 and moved to Horten in Norway . It arrived there on March 30th and then carried out snorkeling exercises in the Oslofjord .
1. patrol
On April 2, 1945, it ran from Horten on its first and only patrol. After additions in Kristiansand , it operated in the North Atlantic , off the east coast of Canada and near Newfoundland . Enemy ships were neither sunk nor damaged. After 41 days at sea, it capitulated on May 13, 1945 in the Canadian port of Shelburne ( Nova Scotia ) near Halifax .
equipment
Flak
To defend against enemy aircraft, the U 889 had one of the most modern anti-aircraft guns (Flak) of the Wehrmacht , namely the 3.7 cm Flak Twin 43 , here with two tubes lying next to each other (and not on top of each other). It was also equipped with two 2 cm Flak C / 38s , as well as twin guns.
Wireless
An important part of the equipment was the ultra-modern and equally secret radio measurement observation devices (FuMB), which was also understood to mean radar warning devices in German at the time . At U 889 this included FuMB 1 ( Metox ), FuMB 7 ( Naxos ) and FuMB 26 (Tunis). On the photo (picture) you can see the Bali antenna of the Metox on the left side of the picture . In the middle, on top of the antenna mast, which the sailor turns with his right hand, facing the viewer, is the “fly” antenna of the Naxos. What is striking about it is the dipole ( butterfly antenna ) resembling two rose petals in the center of the parabolic reflector formed by a wire mesh . Behind it, on top of the mast, is the circular horn antenna for the Tunis. On the right you can see another circular antenna, namely the loop antenna for VHF reception.
Web links
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 .