Английская Википедия:German submarine U-116 (1941)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsШаблон:Infobox service recordGerman submarine U-116 was a Type XB minelaying U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
She was ordered on 31 January 1939 and laid down on 1 July at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel, as yard number 615. She was launched on 3 May 1941 and commissioned under the command of Korvettenkapitän Werner von Schmidt on 26 July of that year.[1]
Service history
1st patrol
After a period of training as part of the 2nd U-boat Flotilla, U-116 was assigned to the front-line as part of the 1st U-boat Flotilla on 1 February 1942.[1] She sailed from Kiel on 4 April 1942, bound for Bergen, Norway, via Heligoland, and departed Bergen on 25 April, circling the British Isles before arriving at Lorient in occupied France, on 5 May.[2]
2nd patrol
U-116 sailed from Lorient on 16 May 1942 on a patrol to the mid-Atlantic lasting 25 days, arriving back at her homeport on 9 June, without any success.[3]
3rd patrol
U-116 was more successful on her third patrol which took her south to the coast of West Africa, attacking Convoy OS-33 south of the Azores on 12 July 1942. Soon after midnight she fired one torpedo at the Шаблон:GRT merchant ship Cortona, causing some damage; although the ship was then sunk by Шаблон:GS.[4] Nine hours later U-116 fired two torpedoes into the 4,284 GRT British merchant ship Shaftesbury, which sank in 15 minutes.[5] The U-boat returned to Lorient on 23 August, after 58 days at sea.[6]
4th patrol
For her fourth patrol, U-116 sailed under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Wilhelm Grimme. Leaving Lorient on 22 September 1942,[7] she sent her last radio message on 6 October whilst in the North Atlantic at position Шаблон:Coord, and was never heard from again. 56 men were lost with her.[8][1]
Summary of raiding history
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[9] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 July 1942 | Cortona | Шаблон:Flag | 7,093 | Damaged |
| 12 July 1942 | Shaftesbury | Шаблон:Flag | 4,284 | Sunk |
References
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External links
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