German submarine U-341

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Career

Name:	U-341
Ordered:	20 January 1941
Builder:	Nordseewerke, Emden
Yard number:	213
Laid down:	28 October 1941
Launched:	10 October 1942
Commissioned:	28 November 1942
Fate:	Sunk by a Canadian aircraft, September 1943^[1]
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^[2]^[3]
Part of:	8th U-boat Flotilla (28 November 1942–31 May 1943) 3rd U-boat Flotilla (1 June–19 September 1943)
Commanders:	Oblt.z.S.. Dietrich Epp (28 November 1942–19 September 1943)
Operations:	1st patrol: 25 May–10 July 1943 2nd patrol: 31 August–19 September 1943
Victories:	None

German submarine U-341 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.

She was a member of one wolfpack.

She did not sink or damage any ships.

Service history

The submarine was laid down on 28 October 1941 at the Nordseewerke yard at Emden as 'werk' 213, launched on 20 August 1942 and commissioned on 28 November 1942 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Dietrich Epp.

U-341 served with the 8th U-boat Flotilla, for training and then with the 3rd flotilla for operations from 1 June.

1st patrol

U-341 sailed from Kiel on 25 May 1943, and out into the Atlantic Ocean via the Iceland / Faroe Islands 'gap'. Having moved all over the central north Atlantic without encountering any shipping, she arrived at La Pallice in occupied France, on 10 July.^[4]

2nd patrol and loss

For her second foray, U-341 departed La Pallice on 31 August 1943 and headed north. On 19 September, she was sunk by depth charges dropped by a Canadian B-24 Liberator of No. 10 Squadron RCAF southwest of Iceland.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Fifty men died; there were no survivors

References

Notes

↑ Kemp, Paul: U-Boats Destroyed - German Submarine Losses in the World Wars, 1999, Arms & Armour, ISBN 1-85409-515-3, p. 146.
↑ "The Type VIIC boat U-341 - German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
↑ "War Patrols by German U-boat U-341 - Boats - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
↑ "Patrol of U-boat U-341 from 25 May to 10 July 1943 - U-boat patrols - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
↑ http://uboat.net/boats/u341/htm
↑ Kemp, p. 146
↑ http://www.u-boot-archiv.de/dieboote/u0341html U-341 at u-boot-archiv.de

Bibliography

External links

U-341 at u-boot-archiv.de (German)

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Type VIID

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Type VIIF

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Preceded by: Type II
Followed by: Type IX

List of U-boat types

Coordinates: 58°34′N 25°30′W / 58.567°N 25.500°W / 58.567; -25.500

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