German submarine U-806 | |
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Career (Nazi Germany) | ![]() |
Name: | U-806 |
Ordered: | 10 April 1941 |
Builder: | DeSchiMAG Seebeckwerft, Bremerhaven |
Yard number: | 716 |
Laid down: | 27 April 1943 |
Launched: | 1943 |
Commissioned: | 29 April 1944 |
Fate: | sunk as target 21 December 1945 in position 55°44′N 8°18′W / 55.733°N 8.3°WCoordinates: 55°44′N 8°18′W / 55.733°N 8.3°W |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type: | Type IXC/40 submarine |
Displacement: |
1,144 t (1,126 long tons) surfaced 1,257 t (1,237 long tons) submerged |
Length: |
76.76 m (251 ft 10 in) o/a 58.75 m (192 ft 9 in) pressure hull |
Beam: | 6.86 m (22 ft 6 in) o/a 4.44 m (14 ft 7 in) pressure hull |
Height: | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
Draft: | 4.67 m (15 ft 4 in) |
Propulsion: |
2 × MAN M 9 V 40/46 supercharged 9-cylinder diesel engines, 4,400 hp (3,281 kW) 2 × SSW GU 345/34 double-acting electric motors, 1,000 hp (746 kW) |
Speed: |
19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) surfaced 7.3 kn (13.5 km/h; 8.4 mph) submerged |
Range: |
13,850 nmi (25,650 km; 15,940 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced 63 nmi (117 km; 72 mi) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged |
Test depth: | 230 m (750 ft) |
Complement: | 4 officers, 44 enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems: | FuG 200 Hohentwiel |
Armament: |
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Service record | |
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Identification codes: | M 17 549 |
Commanders: | Kptlt. Klaus Hornbostel |
Operations: | 1 patrol |
German submarine U-806 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
U-801 was ordered in April 1941 from DeSchiMAG Seebeckwerft in Geestemünde under the yard number 716. Her keel was laid down on 27 April 1943 and the U-boat was launched sometime late in 1943. On 29 April 1944 she was commissioned into service under the command of Kapitänleutnant Klaus Hornbostel (Crew 34) in the 4th U-boat Flotilla.
After work up for deployment in the Baltic Sea, U-806 transferred to the 33rd U-boat Flotilla for front-line service on 19 October 1944. She left Kiel for her first - and only - war patrol on 23 October. On the way to her assigned operational area off Canada she stopped at Horten and Kristiansand. While operating against convoy HX-327 in late December 1944, U-806 sank two ships, the British steamer Samtucky of 7,219 GRT, and the Canadian escort Clayoqout on 21 and 24 December respectively. An attack on another Canadian escort, Transcona, failed.
Two months later, U-806 returned to base via Norway, arriving in Flensburg on 27 February 1945. Spending the rest of the war in training, U-806 ran aground on Hatter Reef on 5 May 1945 and had to be towed free by a tug the next day. She arrived in Aarhus later that day in order to surrender to the Allies. In June 1945 the U-boat was transferred to Loch Ryan via Fredericia, Kiel, and Wilhelmshaven, arriving in Scotland on 26 June. On 20 December 1945, as part of Operation Deadlight, U-806 left Loch Ryan under tow from HMS Masterful to be sunk by ORP Błyskawica by artillery.
References[]
- Notes
- ↑ Gröner 1985, p. 105-7.
- Bibliography
- Busch, Rainer; Röll, Hans-Joachim (1999) (in German). Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945. IV. Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Mittler. ISBN 3-8132-0514-2.
- Gröner, Erich (1985) (in German). U-Boote, Hilfskreuzer, Minenschiffe, Netzleger, Sperrbrecher. III. Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe. ISBN 3-7637-4802-4.
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