Unterseeboot 86
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Germany had two submarines designated U-86, one in each World War.
In World War I, the U-86 was a Type Mittel U style manufactured in the Germaniawerft, Kiel shipyard.
On 27 June, 1918 this boat sank the canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle off the coast of Ireland in violation of international law. When the crew took to the lifeboats, U-86 surfaced, ran down all the lifeboats except one, and shot at the people in the water. Only the 24 people in the remaining lifeboat survived. They were rescued shortly afterwards and testified as to what had happened. The 234 others on board the Llandovery Castle drowned.
After the war the captain of U-86, Lieutenant Helmut Patzig and two of his lieutenants were arraigned for trial on war crimes, but Patzig disappeared, and though the two lieutenants were convicted and sentenced to four years in prison, they both escaped.
This U-86 was surrendered after the war and sank in the English Channel on the way to be broken up in 1921.
During World War II, the U-86 was a Type VIIB style Nazi German U-Boat.
[edit] Combat record
U-86 entered service on May 10th, 1941, with a crew of 50, under the command of submarine captain Walter Schug. On its nine active patrols, U-86 saw the following actions; [1] [2]
- January 16th, 1942: Damaged British ship Toorak, 8,627 tons
- January 18th, 1942: Sank Greek ship Dimitrios G Thermiotis, 4,271 tons
- August 7th, 1942: Sank the United States ship Wawaloam, 342 ton
- February 25th, 1943: U-86 was attacked and damaged by an unidentified aircraft
- March 11th, 1943: Sank the Norwegian ship Brant County, 5,001 tons
- November 11th, 1943: U-86 was reported missing/lost with all hands, while operating in the North Atlantic
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See Also: List of U-boats
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