Unterseeboot 175
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Unterseeboot 175 was a German Type IXC U-Boat of the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down on 30 January 1941 at the AG Weser shipyard of Bremen, and commissioned on 5 December 1941 with Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Bruns in command. She was sunk on 17 April 1943, south-west of Ireland, at position , by depth charges and gunfire from the United States Coast Guard cutter USS Spencer. 13 of her crew were killed; there were 41 survivors.
She conducted 3 Patrols:
- 5 December 1941 - 31 August 1942 4. Flottille (training)
- 1 September 1942 - 17 April 1943 10. Flottille
She sank 10 ships for a total of 40,603 GRT.
[edit] Career
- At 11.11 hours on 4 October 1942, when the merchant ship Caribstar was steaming a zigzag course off the mouth of the Orinoco River, she was sunk by U-175.
 Coast Guardsmen on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer watch the explosion of a depth charge which blasted U-175's hope of breaking into the center of a large convoy. |
 The damaged U-175 on the surface shortly before sinking. |
 Survivors from U-175 after being sunk by USS Spencer, April 17, 1943. |
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