Nummer: 19107a
Area : | Western Area |
Sea area : | North Sea |
Nationality of U-boat : | German |
U-boat : | KU 5... ? |
Used weapon(s) : | Torpedo(es) |
Convoy : | TAM.91 |
Date of sinking : | 26.02.1945 |
Time of sinking : | 08:45 |
Nationality of target : | British |
Actual type of target : | Steam Freighter |
Name of target : | Auretta |
Year of launch : | 1935 |
Actual tonnage : | 4571 BRT |
Actual result : | sunk |
Position of target : | 51.24n 02.49e |
Footnote : | The success is claimed by Mattes, p.120, but does not fit with any concretly numbered (or manned) midget. The literature generally supposes a mine Explosion. |
related attacks : | Angriff 1 Angriff 2 |
Convoy : | TAM.91 |
Route of convoy : | Southend (Thames) - Antwerp |
Remark to convoy : | December 1944 to May 1945, cf. TAC |
updated on: | 30.06.2018 |
Remark: | ANM |
Changes: | 1) Mattes, Klaus: Die Seehunde. Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn 1995, S. 120 2) Arnold Hague 2002: TAM.91 |