Unterseeboot 413
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| Career (Nazi Germany) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | U-413 |
| Ordered: | 15 August 1940 |
| Builder: | Danziger Werft AG, Danzig |
| Yard number: | 114 |
| Laid down: | April 25, 1941 |
| Launched: | 15 January 1942 |
| Commissioned: | June 3, 1942 |
| Fate: | Sunk on 20 August 1944 in the English Channel, by depth charges. 45 dead and 1 survivor |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | VIIC |
| Service record | |
| Part of | Kriegsmarine 8. Unterseebootsflottille (Training) 1942-06-03 - 1942-10-31 1. Unterseebootsflottille (Front Boat) |
| Identification codes | M 03 918 |
| Commanders | Kapitänleutnant Gustav Poel 1942-06-03 — 1944-04-19 Oberleutnant Dietrich Sachse |
| Operations | 8 patrols |
| Victories | 5 ships sunk for a total of 36.885 gross register tons (GRT) 1 warship sunk for a total of 1.100 gross register tons (GRT) |
Unterseeboot 413 was a Type VIIC submarine of the Kriegsmarine. She was commissioned in mid 1942, with Oberleutnant zur See Gustav Poel in command. Poel commanded her (receiving a promotion to Kapitänleutnant) until April 19, 1944, when he was relieved by Oblt. Dietrich Sachse who commanded her until her loss.
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[edit] Career
U-413 conducted eight patrols in World War II, sinking six ships totaling of 37,985 tons.
- On November 14, 1942, she sank the 20,107-ton troop transport ship MV Warwick Castle (one of the largest sunk in World War II).
At 8:44 am, the ship, under Master Henry Richard Leepman-Shaw in convoy MKF-1X was hit by one of two torpedoes fired, about 200 miles northwest of Cape Espichel, Portugal. The U-boat hit her with two coups de grâce at 8:57 am that caused the ship to sink about one hour later. The master, 61 crew members and 34 service personnel died. 201 crew members, 29 gunners and 5 naval and 131 service personnel were rescued by HMS Achates, HMS Vansittart, HMCS Louisburg, and the British motor merchant MV Leinster. The ship had been in convoy Convoy KMF-1 for Operation Torch.
- On November 19, 1942, U-413 was attacked by a British Lockheed Hudson aircraft with five bombs and was damaged so severely that she had to return to base.
- On 20th Feb 1944 she sank the British 1,100 ton destroyer HMS Warwick off Trevose Head, north Cornwall.
[edit] Fate
U-413 did not suffer any casualties until August 20, 1944, when she was sunk in the English Channel by depth charges from the British escort destroyer HMS Wensleydale and the destroyers HMS Forester and HMS Vidette. 45 of her crew were killed; there was one survivor.
[edit] Trivia
Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon features a fictitious U-413, a milchkuh.
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