German submarine U-208

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Career

Name:	U-208
Ordered:	16 October 1939
Yard number:	637
Laid down:	5 August 1940
Launched:	21 May 1941
Commissioned:	5 July 1941
Fate:	Sunk by British warships, 7 December 1941
General characteristics
Type:	Type VIIC submarine
Displacement:	769 tonnes (757 long tons) surfaced 871 t (857 long tons) submerged
Length:	67.1 m (220 ft 2 in) o/a 50.5 m (165 ft 8 in) pressure hull
Beam:	6.2 m (20 ft 4 in) o/a 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in) pressure hull
Draft:	4.74 m (15 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:	2 × supercharged Germaniawerft 6-cylinder 4-stroke F46 diesel engines, totalling 2,800–3,200 bhp (2,100–2,400 kW). Max rpm: 470-490 2 × electric motors, totalling 750 shp (560 kW) and max rpm: 296.
Speed:	17.7 knots (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph) surfaced 7.6 knots (14.1 km/h; 8.7 mph) submerged
Range:	15,170 km (8,190 nmi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced 150 km (81 nmi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged
Test depth:	230 m (750 ft) Crush depth: 250–295 m (820–968 ft)
Complement:	44–52 officers and ratings
Armament:	• 5 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes (four bow, one stern) • 14 × G7e torpedoes or 26 TMA mines • 1 × 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun(220 rounds) • Various AA guns

Service record^[1]^[2]
Part of:	1st U-boat Flotilla, Training (5 July–31 August 1941) 1st U-boat Flotilla, Front (Operational) Boat (1 September–7 December 1941)
Commanders:	Oblt.z.S. Alfred Schlieper, (5 July–7 December 1941)
Operations:	Two patrols
Victories:	One commercial ship sunk (3,872 GRT)

German submarine U-208 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 5 August 1940 by the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft yard at Kiel as 'werk' 637, launched on 21 May 1941 and commissioned on 5 July under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Alfred Schlieper.

She was sunk in December 1941 by ships of the British Royal Navy.

Operational career

Part of the 1st U-boat Flotilla, U-208 carried out two patrols in the North Atlantic.

1st patrol

U-208's first patrol began when she left Kiel on 29 September 1941. She travelled to the Barents Sea before turning about and headed for the 'gap' between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. She then crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Labrador and followed the coast south to Newfoundland. She sank the Larpool about 250 nmi (460 km) east southeast of Cape Race (Newfoundland). Turning east, she sailed for the Bay of Biscay, arriving at Brest in occupied France, on 12 November.

2nd patrol and loss

The boat's second patrol took her south of Spain. She was attacked and sunk by depth charges dropped by the British destroyers HMS Hesperus and Harvester west of Gibraltar on 7 December 1941. Forty-five men died; there were no survivors.

Afternote

U-208 was previously thought to have been sunk by the corvette HMS Bluebell on 11 December 1941, west of Gibraltar.

Summary of Raiding Career

Date	Ship Name	Nationality	Tonnage (GRT)	Fate^[3]
2 November 1941	Larpool	United Kingdom	3,872	Sunk

References

Notes

↑ "The Type VIIC boat U-208 - German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
↑ "War Patrols by German U-boat U-208 - Boats - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
↑ http://uboat.net/boats/successes/u208/html

Bibliography

External links

U-208 at u-boot-archiv.de (German)

German Type VII submarines

Type VIIA

U-27 U-28 U-29 U-30 U-31 U-32 U-33 U-34 U-35 U-36

Type VIIB

U-45 U-46 U-47 U-48 U-49 U-50 U-51 U-52 U-53 U-54 U-55 U-73 U-74 U-75 U-76 U-83 U-84 U-85 U-86 U-87 U-99 U-100 U-101 U-102

Type VIIC

U-69
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U-1210

Type VIIC/41

U-292
U-293
U-294
U-295
U-296
U-297
U-298
U-299
U-300
U-317
U-318
U-319
U-320
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U-1279
U-1301
U-1302
U-1303
U-1304
U-1305
U-1306
U-1307
U-1308

Type VIID

U-213 U-214 U-215 U-216 U-217 U-218

Type VIIF

U-1059 U-1060 U-1061 U-1062

Preceded by: Type II
Followed by: Type IX

List of U-boat types

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