German submarine U-86 (1941)

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Career
Name: U-86
Ordered: 9 June 1938
Builder: Flender Werke, Lübeck
Cost: 4,714,000 Reichsmark
Yard number: 282
Laid down: 20 January 1940
Launched: 10 May 1941
Commissioned: 8 July 1941
Fate: Sunk by British warships, 29 November 1943
General characteristics
Class & type: Type VIIB U-boat
Displacement: 753 t (741 long tons) surfaced
857 t (843 long tons) submerged[1]
Length: 66.5 m (218 ft 2 in) (o/a)
48.8 m (160 ft 1 in) pressure hull[1]
Beam: 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in)
4.7 m (15 ft 5 in) pressure hull[1]
Draught: 4.74 m (15 ft 7 in)[1]
Propulsion: 2 × supercharged MAN, 6 cylinder, 4-stroke M 6 V 40/46 diesel engines totalling 2,800–3,200 shp (2,100–2,400 kW). Max rpm: 470-490 surfaced
2 × BBC GG UB 720/8 electric motors with 750 shp (560 kW) for 295 rpm submerged[2]
Speed: 17.9 knots (33.2 km/h; 20.6 mph) surfaced
8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)[1]
Range: 9,700 nmi (18,000 km; 11,200 mi) at 10 knots surfaced
90 nautical miles (170 km; 100 mi) at 4 knots submerged[1]
Test depth: 230 m (750 ft). Calculated crush depth: 250–295 m (820–968 ft)
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 1 inflatable rubber boat[2]
Complement: 44 to 48 officers and ratings
Armament: 5 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes: four bow, one stern
14 × torpedoes or 26 TMA mines
1 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) deck gun with 220 rounds
1 × C30 20 mm AA
Service record
Part of: 5th U-boat Flotilla
(8 July 1941–31 August 1941)
1st U-boat Flotilla
(1 September 1941–29 November 1943)
Commanders: Kptlt. Walter Schug
(8 July 1941–29 November 1943)
Operations: Eight:
1st patrol:
7–22 December 1941
2nd patrol:
27 December–15 February 1942
3rd patrol:
25 March–26 May 1942
4th patrol:
2 July–18 September 1942
5th patrol:
31 October 1942–7 January 1943
6th patrol:
24 February–16 April 1943
7th patrol:
8 July–11 September 1943
8th patrol:
11–29 November 1943
Victories: Three ships sunk (9,614 GRT);
one ship damaged - 8,627 GRT

German submarine U-86 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.

She was laid down at the Flender Werke in Lübeck on 20 January 1940 as Werk 282. Launched on 10 May 1941, she was commissioned on 8 July and completed training with the 5th U-boat Flotilla under the command of Kapitänleutnant (Kptlt.) Walter Schug. She was reassigned to the 1st flotilla, initially for further training on 1 September before being ready for operations from 1 December. She stayed with that organization until her loss on 29 November 1943.

U-86 completed eight war patrols with the flotilla, sinking three ships, totalling 9,614 gross register tons (GRT). She also damaged a ship of 8,627 GRT. She was a member of ten wolfpacks.

She was sunk in November 1943 by two British warships.

Operational career

1st patrol

U-86 departed Kiel on 7 December 1941 for her first patrol. She docked at Brest on the French Atlantic coast on the 22nd where she would be based for the rest of her career.

2nd patrol

U-86's second patrol started on 27 December 1941. She damaged the British Toorak on 16 January 1942. On the 18th, she sank the Greek Dimitios G. Thermiotis.

3rd and 4th patrols

On her third foray, she left Brest on 25 March 1942. It was relatively uneventful. She returned on 26 May.

Sortie number four began on 2 July 1942. On 6 August, she sank an American sailing ship, the Wawaloam with her deck gun.

5th, 6th and 7th patrols

This (fifth) outing was also quiet, starting on 31 October 1942 and finishing on 7 January 1943.

Having left Brest on 24 February 1943, she encountered and sank her final victim, the Norwegian Brant County on 11 March.

U-86's seventh patrol was between 8 July and 11 September 1943.

8th patrol and Loss

The boat departed Brest for the last time on 11 November 1943. She was sunk east of the Azores on the 29 November 1943 by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Tumult and HMS Rocket.

50 men died; there were no survivors.

Previously recorded fate

U-86 was listed as missing in the North Atlantic from 28 November 1943.
The boat was claimed sunk by aircraft from the USS Bogue on 29 November 1943. This attack was subsequently attributed to U-764 which escaped undamaged.

Summary of raiding career

Date Ship [3] Nationality Tonnage Fate
16 January 1942 Toorak  UK 8,627 Damaged
18 January 1942 Dimitrios G. Thermiotis  Greece 4,271 Sunk
6 August 1942 Wawaloam*  USA 342 Sunk
11 March 1943 Brant County  Norway 5,001 Sunk

* Sailing ship

See also

  • List of German U-boats

References

Notes
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Gröner 1990, p. 71.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gröner 1990, p. 74.
  3. ↑ "Ships hit by U-86 - U-boat Successes - German U-boats". uboat.net. Retrieved 8 December 2012. 
Bibliography
  • Bishop, C (2006). Kriegsmarine U-Boats, 1939–45. Amber Books. 
  • Gröner, Eric H (1990). German Warships, 1815–1945. Conway Maritime Press. 
  • Hickam, Homer. Torpedo Junction. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. 

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