Your U-boat pictures

[U796]

OK
Thanks
Bundesarchiv said : "Frankreich, Lorient.- U-Boot U 31 auf Slipp"

I agree with you, this is not a type VIIA
Can you identified this U-Boat Type II ?

[U796]

U-512 (Type IXC)


U-513 (Type IXC)


U-514 (Type IXC)

[U796]

U-515 (Type IXC)

Bunker Scorff in Lorient





Sunk, on April 9, 1944 by USS Chatelain

Survivors in May 2002

[U796]

U-516 (Type IXC)

Surrendered at Loch Eriboll, Scotland. Later transferred to Lisahally for Operation Deadlight.

[U796]

U-518 (Type IXC)

At 12.35 hours on June 27 1943, the outbound boat was strafed and attacked with four depth charges by the British Sunderland aircraft


U-523 (Type IXC)


U-524 (Type IXC)


Sunk 22 March, 1943 south of Madeira, Portugal, in position 30.15N, 18.13W, by depth charges from a US Liberator aircraft

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by U796

OK
Thanks
Bundesarchiv said : "Frankreich, Lorient.- U-Boot U 31 auf Slipp"

I agree with you, this is not a type VIIA
Can you identified this U-Boat Type II ?

Hi!

Several Type II U-boats visited Lorient in the late summer and fall of 1940, according to the individual patrol records at uboat.net.

Type IIC: U-56, U-57, U-58, U-59, U-60, and U-61

Type IID: U-137, U-138

I cannot really tell from the photo which of these it might have been.

Pablo

[Sir Big Jugs]

Originally Posted by Pablo

Hi!

Several Type II U-boats visited Lorient in the late summer and fall of 1940, according to the individual patrol records at uboat.net.

Type IIC: U-56, U-57, U-58, U-59, U-60, and U-61

Type IID: U-137, U-138

I cannot really tell from the photo which of these it might have been.

Pablo

After looking at the pictures, it can not have been U-56, U-57, U-58, since they did not have the wire cutters.

It could have been U-59, U-61, since the wire cutters can clearly be seen in their pictures.

U-60, U-137 or U-138 I can't tell, since the bow of the U-boat is not visible in the pictures.

-SBJ

[Sir Big Jugs]

This would suggest it is a Type IID:



See that it has wirecutters not only above the water line, but also under, at the torpedo tubes?
The boat in the picture also has that, but the Type IIC didn't, according to Uboat.net:

[U796]

Originally Posted by Sir Big Jugs

This would suggest it is a Type IID:

See that it has wirecutters not only above the water line, but also under, at the torpedo tubes?
The boat in the picture also has that, but the Type IIC didn't, according to Uboat.net:

I agree with you.
I think it's U-138 (Type IID)
U-Boat.net said :
26 Sep, 1940
A few hours before reaching her base at Lorient, U-138 encountered the British submarine HMS Tribune which fired four torpedoes towards the German sub. None hit the U-boat, which escaped and reached its base.

[U796]

U-552 (Type VIIC)







The GREAT Erich TOPP
35 ships sunk for a total of 197,460 GRT
1 warship sunk for a total of 1,190 tons
4 ships damaged for a total of 32,317 GRT
In March 1958 he rejoined the Navy. He then spent four years in the USA as a staff member of the Military Committee of NATO
He died on Dec 26 2005. He was "Konteradmiral"





The red devils crossed by a shell

Scuttled on 2 May, 1945 at Wilhelmshaven

[U796]

U-553 (Type VIIC)



Missing, presumed sunk, in the mid North Atlantic after going missing in January 1943. 47 dead (all hands lost).

Korvkpt. Karl Thurmann

[JCHomer]

there is a model of the U-552 and its classed as a IIC but i wouldn,t know to be honest

click on photos to enlarge
(photos courtesy of W.D. Danckworth)

U224 commissioned 06-1942.....sunk 01-1943


http://www.ubootwaffe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1419


Leutnant zur See Wolf D. Danckworth...sole survivor :


The First Lieutenant was Leutnant zur See Wolf Dietrich Danckworth, of the 1938 term. He was the sole survivor. He joined the navy in December, 1938 to Stralsund, where he underwent preliminary disciplinary training for five months. This was followed by four months in the sailing training ship "Albert Leo Schlageter." In June, 1939, he was promoted officer cadet and drafted to "Schlerwig-Holstein," in which he remained until August, 1939, when he went to the Naval College at Flensburg. Here he went sick and was granted extended leave. In spring, 1940, he went to the Naval College at Kiel and then returned to Flensburg to complete his unfinished course. In September, 1940, he was appointed to the ex-Norwegian torpedo-boat "Leopard" (formerly ("Balder"), whose duties were escorting U-Boats on tactical exercises in the Baltic and later convoy work in the Kattegat. In spring 1941, he was promoted Senior Midshipman and volunteered for the U-Boat arm, proceeding to the 1st U-Boat Training Division at Pillau. In June, 1941, he proceeded to Flensburg and then back to Pillau taking courses at both places. He was commissioned in Autumn, 1941, when he was appointed First Lieutenant in "U 72" a school boat commanded by Kapitänleutnant Meer, with whom he remained until the commissioning of "U 224."
Danckworth was due to be given his own command after this patrol, but had asked to stay on for another two patrols, as he thought he could learn so much from Kosbadt.

(Note: Wolf Danckworth is 93, alive and well, living in Germany, speaks-writes English, communicates well with his computer: 09-15-2010)

U72 - Danckworth training submarine

[U796]

U-550 (Type IXC-40)

The tanker Pan Pennsylvania on fire, his only victory before being destroyed itself

Sunk 16 April, 1944 in the North Atlantic in position 40.09N, 69.44W, by depth charges and gunfire from the US destroyer escorts USS Gandy, USS Joyce and USS Peterson. 44 dead and 12 survivors.

USS Joyce

[U796]

U-551 (Type VIIC)

Sunk 23 March, 1941 in the North Atlantic south-east of Iceland, in position 62.37N, 16.47W, by depth charges from the British ASW trawler HMS Visenda. 45 dead (all hands lost).