German submarine U-513
| Career (Nazi Germany) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | U-513 |
| Ordered: | 14 February 1940 |
| Builder: | Deutsche Werft, Hamburg |
| Yard number: | 309 |
| Laid down: | 26 April 1941 |
| Launched: | 29 October 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 10 January 1942 |
| Fate: | Sunk by aircraft, 19 July 1943[1] |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class and type: | Type IXC submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,120 t (1,100 long tons) surfaced 1,232 t (1,213 long tons) submerged |
| Length: | 76.76 m (251 ft 10 in) o/a 58.75 m (192 ft 9 in) pressure hull |
| Beam: | 6.76 m (22 ft 2 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 (3,281 kW) 2 × SSW 2 GU 345/34 double-acting electric motors, 1,000 hp (746 kW) |
| Speed: | 18.3 knots (33.9 km/h; 21.1 mph) surfaced 7.7 knots (14.3 km/h; 8.9 mph) submerged |
| Range: | 13,450 nmi (24,910 km; 15,480 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced 64 nautical miles (119 km; 74 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[3][4] | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
4th U-boat Flotilla (10 January 1942 – 31 August 1942) 10th U-boat Flotilla (1 September–19 July 1943) |
| Commanders: |
K.Kapt. Rolf Rüggeberg (10 January 1942 – 14 May 1944) Kptlt. Friedrich Guggenberger (15 May 1943–19 July 1944) |
| Operations: | 1st patrol: 15 August – 2 October 1942 |
| Victories: | Six ships sunk for a total of 29,940 GRT; two ships damaged for a total of 13,177 GRT |
U-513 was a type IXC U-boat built for service in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
She was laid down on 26 May 1941 by the naval construction firm Deutsche Werft AG in Hamburg as yard number 309, and commissioned on 10 January 1942. Her commanders were Korvettenkapitän Rolf Rüggeberg (January 1942 to April 1943) and Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Guggenberger (15 May to 19 July 1943). Her training period was from 10 January 1942 to 31 August, as part of the 4th U-boat Flotilla. She was then assigned to the 10th U-boat Flotilla for operations.
She sank six ships with a total tonnage of 29,940 gross register tons (GRT) and damaged two more with a total tonnage of 13,177 GRT. The boat was a member of two wolfpacks. She was sunk by depth charges from a US aircraft in the South Atlantic Ocean in July 1943.
In 2011 after nine years research and two years of seagoing searches, the expedition led by the explorers of Schurmann Family located U-513, 85 km (46 nmi) east of their hometown of Florianópolis. The find was announced worldwide on 17 June 2011, when the Schürmanns produced images of a Side-scanning sonar. A dive was made in 2012, where photos and video images were recorded.
Operational career
1st patrol
U-513 's first patrol began when she departed Kiel on 7 August 1942 and headed for the Atlantic by way of the gap between Iceland and the Faeroe Islands. Her first two successes came in Conception Bay, Newfoundland on 5 September. She arrived in Lorient, in occupied France on 22 October.
2nd patrol
Her second sortie took her far out into mid-Atlantic, but she returned to her French base empty-handed. The captain was replaced with the young captain Friedrich Guggenberger.
3rd patrol
Her third and last foray saw her close to the Brazilian coast. She was sunk southeast of São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina state on 19 July 1943 by a US Navy Mariner (Squadron VP-74/P-5). 46 men died; there were seven survivors, including her captain, Friedrich Guggenberger.
Wolfpacks
U-513 took part in two wolfpacks, namely.
- Unverzagt (12–19 March 1943)
- Seeräuber (25–30 March 1943)
Summary of raiding career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Deaths | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1942 | Lord Strathcona |  Canada |
7,335 | 0 | Sunk |
| 5 September 1942 | Saganaga |  United Kingdom |
5,454 | 30 | Sunk |
| 29 September 1942 | Ocean Vagabond | United Kingdom |
7,174 | 1 | Damaged |
| 21 June 1943 | Venezia |  Sweden |
1,673 | 0 | Sunk |
| 25 June 1943 | Eagle |  United States |
6,003 | 0 | Damaged |
| 1 July 1943 | Tutoya | .svg.png){kind=small} Brazil |
1,125 | 7 | Sunk |
| 3 July 1943 | Elihu B. Washburne | United States |
7,176 | 0 | Sunk |
| 16 July 1943 | Richard Caswell | United States |
7,177 | 9 | Sunk |
Discovery
The wreck was found on 14 July 2011, at a depth of 75 m (246 ft), by Brazilian underwater archeologists from the Instituto Kat Schurmann and the Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (Univali). The search for U-513 was conducted with a sail boat and took two years. Another ten German submarines remain to be discovered in Brazilian coastal waters.
U-513 Found/Underwater Footage
A Brazilian project has searched Brazilian waters for the sunken U-513.[5] She was finally found in 2011, and the first underwater videos of the boat were released in March 2012.
References
- ↑ Kemp 1999, pp. 132-133.
- ↑ Gröner 1985, pp. 105-6.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "The Type IXC boat U-513". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "War Patrols by German U-boat U-513". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ↑ U-513
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.
- Kemp, Paul (1999). U-Boats Destroyed - German Submarine Losses in the World Wars. London: Arms & Armour. ISBN 1-85409-515-3.
External links
- Helgason, Guðmundur. "The Type IXC boat U-513". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- Hofmann, Markus. "U 513". Deutsche U-Boote 1935-1945 - u-boot-archiv.de (in German). Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- Video of the sunken U-513 (glo)
- Video of the sunken U-513 (YouTube)
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