In early September, U-96 belonged to group Seawolf before returning to base. UBOAT gives the player command of U-96 during the Second World War, the player is not in charge of the submarine itself but in fact "in charge of the men controlling the submarine" as a U-Boat captain. Le Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, après avoir quitté le commandement de l'U-5 en mai 1940, se vit confier en juin de la même année celui de l'U-96 sous-marin de type VII qui venait de sortir, en 1939, du chantier naval de Kiel. [11] One hundred and six passengers and crew perished, while 143 survivors were picked up by British destroyers. 28 Navires coulés (190 094 tonneaux) et 4 navires endommagés (33 043 tonneaux). The U-boat attacked shortly after 15:00 with a single torpedo, which hit Clea amidships, snapping her in half and setting the wreck on fire. [12] All passengers and crew, in total 360, were lost. Le 30 mars 1945, l'U-96 est coulé par les bombes américaines dans le bassin de sous-marins de Wilhelmshaven à la position géographique de 53° 31′ N, 8° 10′ E[1]. Over 5,000 photographs, most of them taken by Buchheim, survived the war. Après un entraînement de trois mois, l'U-96 fut déclaré opérationnel et fut affecté à la 7e Flottille à Saint-Nazaire. In February 1944, Oblt.z.S. Weltkriegs Ein Projekt von Hubertus Weggelaar und Horst Schmeisser. U-96 launched two more torpedoes into the burning wreck, sinking her in position 60°25′N 17°11′W / 60.417°N 17.183°W / 60.417; -17.183. She sank Torungen off Nova Scotia on 22 February and attacked Kars later the same day. Il coula lors de la seule troisième patrouille sept navires représentant 49 490 tonneaux. [2], The submarine had a maximum surface speed of 17.7 knots (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph) and a maximum submerged speed of 7.6 knots (14.1 km/h; 8.7 mph). On 16 April, the U-boat made contact with convoy OB 309 and was immediately attacked by an escort, HMS Rockingham, resulting in some damage to the boat. In the early hours of 12 December, U-96 attacked the Swedish steamer Stureholm of 4,575 GRT, sinking her with a single torpedo launched at 01:56 in position 57°50′N 8°40′W / 57.833°N 8.667°W / 57.833; -8.667. Mistaking her for a 9000-ton tanker, U-96 launched two torpedoes. [15] All 59 crew members perished in the attack. After six rounds from her deck gun which resulted in three hits, U-96 abandoned the attack on the armed merchantman due to bad weather. The crew abandoned ship and 39 survivors were picked up an escort, HMS Montgomery. A further five crew members were killed when they drifted into the burning wreck of Oilfield nearby after jumping overboard. [34], On 2 August 1941, U-96 left for her sixth patrol in the North Atlantic. The U-boats sank nine ships, including one escort, three of which were claimed by U-96. PLZ/Wohnort: EMail: Homepage: Telefon/Handy: Bemerkung: Ändern: Stromitzki: Hans-Jürgen Her route took her across the North Sea, through the gap between the Faroe and Shetland Islands and into the North Atlantic. [2] She had a total length of 67.10 m (220 ft 2 in), a pressure hull length of 50.50 m (165 ft 8 in), a beam of 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in), a height of 9.60 m (31 ft 6 in), and a draught of 4.74 m (15 ft 7 in). On 12 August, the U-boat was part of group Greenland. She was commissioned on 14 September 1940, with Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in command. *Sailing ship Durant l'année 1941, un correspondant de guerre du nom de Lothar-Günther Buchheim, alors Sonderführer (spécialiste civil ayant rang de lieutenant), rejoint l'U-96 pour sa septième patrouille. Deutsche Crewlisten des 2. Crossing the Atlantic for the last time, she then came back to the eastern side and after transferring a sick crew-member to U-163 on 3 January 1943, arrived at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) on 8 February. Another air attack occurred a week later, on 14 May, when a four-engine aircraft dropped three bombs on the U-boat. The rest of the crew survived when the rescue ship Zaafaran picked up 25 survivors in a lifeboat. The first ship to be hit, a British motor tanker of 8,516 GRT,[24] went up in flames upon being hit, all but eight of her crew of 55 perished in the attack. [25] https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unterseeboot_96_(1940)&oldid=170859237, Portail:Seconde Guerre mondiale/Articles liés, Portail:Époque contemporaine/Articles liés, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence, Tubes lance-torpille : 4 avant (533 mm), 1 arrière (533 mm), 14, (t.) Navire additionné au total de pertes. Her keel was laid down on 16 September 1939, by Germaniawerft, of Kiel as yard number 601. She also caused one vessel of 8,888 GRT to be declared a total loss. En novembre 1941, l'U-96 croise par hasard en pleine tempête l'U-572 commandé par le Kapitäleutnant Heinz Hirsacker. Note : Oblt. Robert Rix in June of that year. Des titres en étant issus comme Love Sees No Colour ou Night in Motion, caractérisé par ses sons de moteur et de voiture et typique des airs techno-pop « classiques », furent parmi les 10 meilleures ventes. Ses ordres sont de photographier et décrire le U-Boot en action à des fins de propagande. After leaving Vigo, U-96 made for the Straits of Gibraltar, with orders to enter the Mediterranean. Aktion: Name: Vorname: Dienstgrad: AR/Funktion: Fahrenszeit von-bis: Strasse/Nr. She was only 500 yd (460 m) from her target when the torpedo was launched. The U-boat escaped the barrage of 27 depth charges unscathed. L'U-96 a opéré avec les Wolfpacks (meutes de loup) durant sa carrière opérationnelle: En tant que membre de la 7e Flottille basée en France à Saint-Nazaire, l'U-96 accomplit 11 patrouilles, coulant 28 navires pour un total de 190 094 tonneaux et en endommage quatre autres pour un total de 33 043 tonneaux[2] (425 jours en mer). 19 survivors were later picked up by an escort. [21] The second ship, the Norwegian tanker Caledonia, was hit in the engine room, killing seven crew members there. L'Unterseeboot 96 (ou U-96) était un sous-marin (U-boot) de type VIIC de la Kriegsmarine durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. The boat had a complement of between forty-four and sixty.[2]. = Kapitänleutnant. auch die Erkennungsmarke, 3 Portrait Fotos aus der Zeit und eine Kopie der Besatzungsliste von U-963. Plowden, DSO. U-572 had sailed on 29/11/41, a few days after U-96 (see the mission details below). Hubertus Weggelaar sammelt nun bereits seit über 10 Jahren Informationen über die Besatzungen der deutschen Kriegsmarine in einer Datenbank und Horst Schmeisser erforscht sogar schon seit 30 Jahren die deutschen U-Boote im 2. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. It also sank Deläes on the 11th. [23] Upon arrival the commander of U-96, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, was presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which he had been awarded two days before. Wilhelm Peters. L'Unterseeboot 96 (ou U-96) était un sous-marin (U-boot) de type VIIC de la Kriegsmarine durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. U-96, which had lost contact during the night, remained in the general area, encountering a British battleship and her escorts, but could not attack. [27] Before the torpedo hit, U-96 was forced to submerge, as an escort, the Flower-class corvette HMS Gladiolus arrived on the scene. Einsätze. Both the novel and the film had a much darker ending than in reality, where the U-boat returns to port only to be destroyed during an air raid with many of her crew killed or wounded. Two weeks later, on 28 August, she joined group Prince-Elector. She had two shafts and two 1.23 m (4 ft) propellers. [26] The third ship sunk that day, the British steamship Port Hardy of 8,897 GRT, was hit accidentally when the third torpedo missed its target. In 1981 Wolfgang Petersen created the critically acclaimed film Das Boot based on Buchheim's novel of the same name with several alterations to the plot and characters. En 1981, Wolfgang Petersen porte le roman de Lothar-Günther Buchheim au grand écran avec le film allemand le plus cher de l'époque, Das Boot, acclamé par la critique comme l'un des meilleurs films de sous-marin de son époque. Ich vermisse dieses stolze Schiff. Le 31 octobre 1941, Lehmann-Willenbrock attaque le convoi OS-10 au clair de lune, en surface et à longue portée, coulant un navire. U-Flottille nach Flensburg (Ostasienboote). War U-Jäger, Schwimmtaucher, Boardingsoldat und sogar in der Navigation. [6] The crew had immediately abandoned ship and all but four out of 47 survived. [38] When U-96's torpedo missed, the ship was stopped and her papers checked. German submarine U-96 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II.Her keel was laid down on 16 September 1939, by Germaniawerft, of Kiel as yard number 601. Touché, l'U-96 plonge, puis refait surface le lendemain matin à 4 h 55 et rentre à Saint-Nazaire. [18], The first, the British 5,547-ton cargo ship Anglo-Peruvian, was mistaken for an auxiliary cruiser and attacked with two torpedoes at 23:27. The next day, U-96 encountered the un-escorted British passenger steamer Almeda Star of 14,936 GRT. She spent most of the rest of the war as a training vessel. Mai 1945 endete mit der bedingungslosen Kapitulation des Deutschen Reichs der Zweite Weltkrieg in Europa. On 30 March 1945, U-96 was sunk by US bombs while in the submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven. [5] Two and a half hours later the un-escorted Belgian Macedonier was sighted and attacked with a single torpedo, which hit amidships, sinking her within 10 minutes in position 57°52′N 8°42′W / 57.867°N 8.700°W / 57.867; -8.700. A second torpedo hit the ship astern 20 minutes later, but still did not sink. Unterseebootsflottille comme sous-marin pour l'entrainement et la formation des équipages. U 96 hatte während seiner Dienstzeit elf Einsätze, bei denen 29 Schiffe mit 178.651 BRT versenkt und vier Schiffe mit 33.000 BRT beschädigt … The ship sank 25 minutes after being hit by the torpedo at the stern. [39] 233 Squadron RAF, but the bombs did not cause any further damage. Fresque du U-96 au Grand Blockhaus de Batz-sur-Mer. U-96 returned to base on 22 January 1941 and once more docked in Lorient after 14 days at sea, sinking two ships for a total of 29,054 GRT.[13]. U-96 was sunk one month later in March by Allied bombs. At this time U-572 was commanded by Kptlt. Hallo U-Boot Sammler, ich habe einen schönen Nachlass eines Matrosen der Kriegsmarine bekommen. Pendant un temps, les Anglais pensèrent à la suite de cette attaque avoir coulé l'U-65. In reality, U-96 survived war service, being decommissioned in February 1945 and converted into a training vessel. The U-boat spent November patrolling the North Atlantic as part of groups Störtebecker and Benecke, until secretly entering the neutral port The ship went down half an hour after being hit, taking nine of her crew of 56 with her. U-96 had a displacement of 769 tonnes (757 long tons) when at the surface and 871 tonnes (857 long tons) while submerged. German submarine U-96 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II. The boat's eighth patrol saw success when she operated off the Canadian east coast. le sloop d'escorte HMS Lulworth l'attaque au canon puis une fois le sous-marin en plongée, lui largue 27 grenades sous-marines, dont aucune n'explose à proximité de l'U-96, qui échappe à l'attaque et poursuit sa patrouille. She returned to the waters west of Scotland, where she attacked the British SS Oropesa of 14,118 GRT early in the morning of 16 January. Two weeks into the patrol, she sighted a straggler from convoy HX 106 s, the British motor tanker Clea. Der Nachlass umfasst u.a. When US Eighth Air Force attacked Wilhelmshaven on 30 March 1945, U-96 was sunk in Hipper basin. De toute sa carrière, l'U-96 n'a déploré la perte d'aucun marin de son équipage. Le 1er avril 1943, l'U-96 quitte le service actif et rejoint la 24. En trois patrouilles sous le commandement de Willenbrock, l'U-96 coula 125 580 tonneaux de navires ennemis. German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. [9] The crew, which had initially abandoned the ship, was able to re-board and sail her to Rothesay escorted by a British destroyer. On 9 January 1941, U-96 departed Lorient for her second war patrol. A torpedo attack on Cardita of 8,237 GRT was unsuccessful. The submarine's final victory this time out came on 9 March when she sank Tyr about 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) from Halifax. The latter ship broke in two following the torpedo's impact. After escaping the attack of an escort, HMS Churchill, U-96 made for port in St. Nazaire, France, where she arrived after 30 days at sea on 28 February, having sunk seven ships for a total of 45,391 GRT. Oktober 1944 bis zum 10. Horst Willner took command, turning the boat over to Oblt.z.S. The next day, 31 October, the group made contact with convoy OS 10. This experience was the basis for his 1973 bestselling novel Das Boot, which was adapted into the 1981 Oscar-nominated film. The tanker had already been hit by torpedoes from U-103, and was lagging behind the same convoy as Clea. On 30 January 1941, U-96 left Lorient for her third war patrol in the North Atlantic. Heinz Hirsacker (who was condemned to death by military tribunal in 1943 charged with "Cowardice in the face of the enemy" - the only U-boat commander to suffer that fate, being executed on April 24th 1943. Starwort's ASDIC was not working, but Lavender and Petunia counter-attacked with depth charges. [37] U 96 beim Anlegen in der Südschleuse von St. Nazaire nach einer anderen Feindfahrt im Jahr 1941, Foto: Deutsches U-Boot-Museum In seiner Stellungnahme zu dieser Unternehmung, bei der die Versenkung von zwei Schiffen mit insgesamt 13.000 BRT beansprucht wurde, hob der Chef der Operationsabteilung Eberhard Godt ebenfalls das ruhige und sichere Arbeiten der Besatzung nach den Fiegerbomben vom … Es konnte auf dieser Unternehmung 2 Schiffe mit 29.054 BRT versenken. The player has to manage the morale, discipline and trauma of the crew and make sure all the crew come back alive at the end of a mission. [4] The 37 crew members of Towa abandoned ship in three lifeboats, one of which capsized, drowning its occupants. Two days later, on 14 December U-96 sank the British motor ship Western Prince of 10,926 GRT in position 59°32′N 17°47′W / 59.533°N 17.783°W / 59.533; -17.783 with two torpedoes. [17] Following the second explosion, HMS Montgomery pursued the U-boat for five hours, dropping 37 depth charges without causing serious damage. 96: Dirks, Sebastian : OG : Ziege : 12/2003 - 05/2004 : geile Zeit!!! The crew are also made up of individuals who will each have their own individual stories and personalities.The developers are also developing precise and historically accurate interior of the ship to further enhance gameplay and give the player the ability to take control of certain tasks on the ship themselves such as firing torpedoes, using radios and piloting the submarine.