U 997
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U 997 ( previous / next - all submarines ) |
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | 55 164 |
| Shipyard: | Blohm + Voss in Hamburg |
| Construction contract: | October 14, 1941 |
| Keel laying: | December 7, 1942 |
| Launch: | August 18, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | September 23, 1943 |
| Commanders: |
Hans Lehmann |
| Flotilla: |
5th U-Flotilla training boat |
| Calls: | seven ventures |
| Sinkings: |
a warship (149 t) |
| Whereabouts: | decommissioned and sunk in Operation Deadlight |
U 997 was a German type VII C submarine, a so-called "Atlanticboat". It was the German Navy during the submarine war in the Second World War in the North Atlantic , the North Sea and in the Arctic Ocean used.
Technical specifications
A Type VII C-boat, driven by two diesel engines , reached a speed of 17 knots when traveling above water , had a maximum range of 6500 nm and was able to travel under water with the help of two electric motors 7.6 knots, with a maximum range of 80 sm.
Commitment and history
The submarine belonged to the 5th U-Flotilla as a training boat from September 23, 1943 to the end of March 1944 and was stationed in Kiel . Then the boat was subordinated to the 9th U-Flotilla for a month , which was stationed on the northern French Atlantic coast, but did not move to their base. During this time, Commander Lehmann completed an operation in the Arctic Ocean with his boat, patrolled west of Bear Island and then called at some bases along the Norwegian coast by the end of June . On June 1, the boat was placed under the 13th submarine flotilla . On June 22nd, Commander Lehmann finally arrived at the Hammerfest naval base with U 997 . From here he set out on his second mission with U 997 on July 18, during which he patrolled the North Sea and west of the island of Jan Mayen . Lehmann made five more trips with his boat from various Norwegian bases. In April 1944, Lehmann succeeded in sinking the freighter Onega and damaging the Norwegian ship Idefjord in an attack on a Soviet convoy near Kola . In May 1945 he handed the boat over to British forces.
End of the boat
U 997 was transferred from Narvik to Scotland and then to Northern Ireland . After some time in the port of Londonderry , U 997 was brought to the Scottish west coast and sunk there as part of Operation Deadlight by rocket fire from mosquitos of the 248th RAF Squadron.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clay Blair : The Submarine War. Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942–1945. Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-16059-2 , page 790
literature
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .
- Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 .