German submarine U-358
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | U-358 |
| Ordered: | 26 October 1939 |
| Builder: | Flensburger Schiffsbau, Flensburg |
| Yard number: | 477 |
| Laid down: | 25 June 1940 |
| Launched: | 30 June 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 15 August 1942 |
| Fate: | Sunk by British warships north of the Azores [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 (15 August 1942–31 January 1943) 7th U-boat Flotilla (1 February 1943–1 March 1944) |
| Commanders: |
Oblt.z.S. Rolf Manke (15 August 1942–1 March 1944) |
| Operations: |
1st patrol: a. 12 January–14 January 1943 b. 16 January–8 March 1943 2nd patrol: 11 April–15 May 1943 3rd patrol: 10 June–1 September 1943 4th patrol: 23 October–16 December 1943 5th patrol: 14 February–1 March 1944 |
| Victories: |
Four ships sunk, 17,753 GRT one warship sunk, of 1,192 tons |
German submarine U-358 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
She carried out five patrols before being sunk north of the Azores by British warships in March 1944.
She was a member of 11 wolfpacks.
She sank four ships and one warship.
Service history
The submarine was laid down on 25 June 1940 at the Flensburger Schiffsbau yard at Flensburg as 'werk' 477, launched on 30 April 1942 and commissioned on 15 August under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Rolf Manke.
1st patrol
The boat's first patrol was in two parts; it began with her departure from Kiel on 12 January 1943. During the second part, which began with her departure from Kristiansand in Norway on the 16th, she negotiated the 'gap' between Iceland and the Faroe Islands and sank the Neva 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) west of these islands on the 22nd. On the 26th, she sank the Nortind east of Cape Farewell, (Greenland). She arrived at St. Nazaire in occupied France on 8 March.
2nd patrol
Having left St. Nazaire (which would be her base for the rest of her career) on 11 April 1943, U-357 sank the Bristol City and the Wentworth; she was attacked south of Cape Farewell by the British corvette HMS Pink and badly damaged. (This attack had originally credited Pink with the destruction of U-192.
3rd patrol
The submarine's third foray took her south, as far as the Gulf of Guinea, off the west African coast. At 84 days, it was her longest patrol.
4th patrol
Sortie number four saw the boat northeast of the Azores.
5th patrol and loss
U-357 had left St. Nazaire on 14 February 1944. From the 29th, she was hunted by the British frigates HMS Gould, Affleck, Gore and Garlies north of the Azores. Gore and Garlies had to break off the assault and sail to Gibraltar to re-fuel. The U-boat sank Gould on 1 March, but Affleck persisted with the attack, sinking U-357 with gunfire after the submarine was forced to the surface.
50 men died in the U-boat; there was one survivor.
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 January 1943 | Neva |  Sweden |
1,456 | Sunk |
| 26 January 1943 | Nortind |  Norway |
8,221 | Sunk |
| 5 May 1943 | Bristol City |  United Kingdom |
2,864 | Sunk |
| 5 May 1943 | Wentworth | United Kingdom |
5,212 | Sunk |
| 1 March 1944 | HMS Gould |  Royal Navy |
1,192 | Sunk |
References
- Notes
- ↑ Kemp, Paul: U-Boats Destroyed - German Submarine Losses in the World Wars, 1997, Arms & Armour, ISBN 1-85409-515-3, pp. 172-173
- ↑ "The Type VIIC boat U-358 - German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ↑ "War Patrols by German U-boat U-358 - Boats - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ↑ http://uboat.net/boats/successes/u358/html
- Bibliography
External links
- U-358 at u-boot-archiv.de (German)
See also
- List of German U-boats
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