Wolfpack Endrass

Endrass was a "wolfpack" of German U-boats that operated from 12 to 17 June 1942 in attacking Convoy HG 84 that comprised 23 Allied ships. The group was named after the U-boat commander Engelbert Endrass, who had been killed in action in December 1941.^[1]

U-boats, commanders and dates[]

U-71, Walter Flachsenberg, 12–16 June
U-84, Horst Uphoff, 12–17 June
U-89, Dietrich Lohmann, 12–17 June
U-132, Ernst Vogelsang, 12–17 June
U-134, Rudolf Schendel, 12–17 June
U-437, Werner-Karl Schulz, 12–17 June
U-552, Erich Topp, 12–17 June
U-571, Helmut Möhlmann, 12–17 June
U-575, Günther Heydemann, 12–17 June

Ships hit by this Wolfpack[]

Five ships of Convoy HG 84, assembled at Gibraltar for passage to Liverpool, were sunk, all by the U-boat U-552 in the early hours of 15 June.

Etrib, Pelayo & Slemdal[]

The first attack came at 00:59, about 700 kilometres (380 nmi) west of Corunna, Spain, when U-552 fired torpedoes at the convoy and hit and sank the 1,943 ton British merchant ship Etrib,^[2] the 1,346 ton British merchant ship Pelayo,^[3] and the 7,374 ton Norwegian tanker Slemdal.^[4]

City of Oxford and Thurso[]

U-552 struck again at 04:34, firing three torpedoes at the convoy. Two British merchant ships, the 2,759 ton City of Oxford^[5] and the 2,436 ton Thurso^[6] were hit and sunk.

References[]

Notes

↑ "Wolfpack Endrass - Wolfpacks - U-boat Operations - uboat.net". uboat.net. http://uboat.net/ops/wolfpacks/33.html. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
↑ "Etrib (Steam merchant) - Ships hit by U-boats - uboat.net". uboat.net. http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1805.html. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
↑ "Pelayo (Motor merchant) - Ships hit by U-boats - uboat.net". uboat.net. http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1804.html. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
↑ "Slemdal (Motor tanker) - Ships hit by U-boats - uboat.net". uboat.net. http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1811.html. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
↑ "City of Oxford (Steam merchant) - Ships hit by U-boats - uboat.net". uboat.net. http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1808.html. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
↑ "Thurso (Steam merchant) - Ships hit by U-boats - uboat.net". uboat.net. http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1806.html. Retrieved 27 January 2010.