Unterseeboot 134

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Unterseeboot 134 was a Type VIIC German U-boat of World War II, laid down on 6 September 1940 by Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack and commissioned on 26 July 1941.

1 Career
2 Fate
3 Sources
4 See also

[edit] Career

In 7 patrols, she sank 3 ships for a total of 12,147 GRT.
American Blimp K-74, the only blimp shot in the war was shot by U-134.
On November 14, 1942, she sank the 4,827-ton Panaman steamship Scapa Flow that carried manganese ore, latex and baled rubber. At 4:58 pm the steamer, under Master Samuel Newbold Mace was hit on the portside under the bridge and at the 3rd hatch by two torpedoes and sank in one minute at position 12N-30W in the mid-Atlantic. She had been located at 11:37 am on a route where attacks were prohibited. The U-boat first obtained permission to attack. 23 survivors escaped in a damaged lifeboat having two rafts and a tin of bandages. The master and chief engineer of the steamer had drowned. The 47 crew members and 13 armed guards on board had no time to launch the four needed lifeboats. Only a metal boat, acquired from the John Carter Rose and four rafts floated. 25 crew members and six armed guards were lost. The survivors transferred the next morning into the boat with the supplies, but one armed guard died. All were rescued on December 1 by HMS Armeria(K 187).

[edit] Fate

She was sunk on 24 August 1943 in the North Atlantic near Vigo, Spain at 42.07N, 09.30W by 6 depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft of Squadron 179/J. All 48 men on board died.