German submarine U-194
| Career (Nazi Germany) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | U-194 |
| Builder: | AG Weser, Bremen |
| Yard number: | Werk 1040 |
| Laid down: | 17 January 1942 |
| Launched: | 22 September 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 8 January 1943 |
| Fate: | Sunk, 24 June 1943 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Type IXC/40 submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,120 t (1,100 long tons) surfaced 1,232 t (1,213 long tons) submerged |
| Length: | 76.76 m (251.8 ft) o/a 58.7 m (192 ft 7 in) pressure hull |
| Beam: | 6.9 m (22 ft 8 in) o/a 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) pressure hull |
| Height: | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
| Draft: | 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × MAN M 9 V 40/46 supercharged 9-cylinder diesel engines, 4,400 hp (3,300 kW) 2 × SSW 2 GU 345/34 double-acting electric motors, 1,000 hp (740 kW) |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) surfaced 7.3 knots (13.5 km/h; 8.4 mph) submerged |
| Range: | 13,850 nmi (25,650 km; 15,940 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced 117 nautical miles (217 km; 135 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged |
| Test depth: | 230 m (750 ft) |
| Complement: | 48 to 56 |
| Armament: |
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| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
4th U-boat Flotilla (8 January–31 May 1943) 10th U-boat Flotilla (1–24 June 1943) 10th U-boat Flotilla (April 1944) |
| Commanders: |
Kptlt. Hermann Hesse (8 January–24 June 1943) |
| Operations: | 1st patrol: 12 June–24 June 1943 |
| Victories: | None |
German submarine U-194 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine built during World War II for service in the Atlantic Ocean. She was a short-lived vessel, being sunk on her first and only operational war patrol. Completed in 1942 at Bremen, U-194 was a U-boat with a very long cruising ability and six torpedo (four forward and two aft) tubes supplied by 22 torpedoes.
Loss
Twelve days into her first and only patrol, U-194 was attacked and sunk by a homing torpedo from an American Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft of No. 84 Squadron RAF in position 59°00′N 26°18′W / 59.000°N 26.300°WCoordinates: 59°00′N 26°18′W / 59.000°N 26.300°W. All 54 men aboard were lost. An initial post-war assessment gave credit for sinking U-194 to a British Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft of No. 120 Squadron RAF squadron, however this attack actually resulted in the sinking of U-200.
The U-194 commander, Kapitänleutnant Hermann Hesse also commanded the U-133 in 1941 and 1942.
References
- ↑ Gröner 1985, pp. 105-7.
Bibliography
- Busch, Rainer; Röll, Hans-Joachim (1999). Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945. Der U-Boot-Krieg (in German) IV (Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Mittler). ISBN 3-8132-0514-2.
- Gröner, Erich (1985). U-Boote, Hilfskreuzer, Minenschiffe, Netzleger, Sperrbrecher. Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815-1945 (in German) III (Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe). ISBN 3-7637-4802-4.
- Morgan, Daniel; Taylor, Bruce (2012). HMS Gurka. UBoat Attack Logs: A Complete Record of Warship Sinkings from Original Sources, 1939-1945 (United States: Naval Institute Press). ISBN 184832118X.
External links
- Hofmann, Markus. "U 194". Deutsche U-Boote 1935-1945 - u-boot-archiv.de (in German). Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- Helgason, Guðmundur. "The Type IXC/40 boat U-194". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
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