U 907
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | M - 01 308 |
| Shipyard: | HC Stülcken Sohn , Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | August 6, 1942 |
| Build number: | 804 |
| Keel laying: | April 1, 1943 |
| Launch: | March 1, 1944 |
| Commissioning: | May 18, 1944 |
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May 18, 1944 - Dec. 7, 1944 |
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| Calls: | 2 patrols |
| Sinkings: |
no |
| Whereabouts: | December 7, 1945 in the framework of Operation Deadlight sunk |
U 907 was one of the Navy in World War II employed submarine from Type VII C , which by the British as part of Operation Deadlight was sunk. Previously, a special incident occurred on this boat.
team
Internally the boat had the nickname "Nazi-Boot" because the commander Servais Cabolet cultivated a Nazi regime, which was exaggerated and fanatical even by the standards of the time. The SA-man and winner of the Tyr-Rune badge recruited not only the officers and most of the non-commissioned officers from among its former comrades in the Navy SA, but also chose a tower Coat of Tyr - rune and the swastika with a sign of his affection the SA and with National Socialism.
The highest enlisted rank had the navigator held Karl Jaeckel. In contrast to the commander Servais Cabolet, who was deployed without much submarine experience, Karl Jäckel was considered to be particularly nautical .
Stakes and end
The first patrol graduated from U 907 as a weather ship in the North Atlantic.
According to the official report, the second patrol from April 29, 1945 to May 5, 1945 was canceled due to a machine failure.
After that, U 907 was no longer used in front of the enemy until the end of the war (May 8, 1945).
More recent findings give a different picture of the reasons for the abortion. As a result, the commander Cabolet could not show any successes in sinking and, spurred on by his ambition, came up with the idea of sinking small fishing vessels in Norwegian waters and reporting these sinkings to Berlin as successes.
However, this project was prevented by the chief helmsman Jäckel. Cabolet saw this as sabotage and decided in return to sink U 907 together with the mutinous crew. Only he and his officers who were personally connected to him were to escape. But in this case, too, Jackel managed to prevent this plan by threatening to use armed force.
The incident on U 907 was hushed up so as not to damage the myth of the heroic submarine drivers.
After the surrender, U 907 was handed over to the British Navy on May 29, 1945 in Bergen (Norway) with the participation of Karl Jäckel . In the tow of the British boat HMS Prosperous it was brought to the naval base Scapa Flow in Scotland and sunk during Operation Deadlight on December 7, 1945 at the position 55 ° 17 ' N , 5 ° 59' W off Ireland's north-east coast.
See also
literature
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 .