German submarine U-221

German submarine U-221 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia a:lang(ar),a:lang(ckb),a:lang(fa),a:lang(kk-arab),a:lang(mzn),a:lang(ps),a:lang(ur){text-decoration:none}a.new,#quickbar a.new{color:#ba0000} /* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-css:4:c88e2bcd56513749bec09a7e29cb3ffa */ if ( window.mediaWiki ) { mw.config.set({"wgCanonicalNamespace": "", "wgCanonicalSpecialPageName": false, "wgNamespaceNumber": 0, "wgPageName": "German_submarine_U-221", "wgTitle": "German submarine U-221", "wgCurRevisionId": 449402922, "wgArticleId": 7805409, "wgIsArticle": true, "wgAction": "view", "wgUserName": null, "wgUserGroups": ["*"], "wgCategories": ["Ship infoboxes without an image", "Atlantic Ocean articles missing geocoordinate data", "All articles needing coordinates", "Type VII U-boats", "World War II submarines of Germany", "U-boats commissioned in 1942", "U-boats sunk in 1943", "U-boats sunk by aircraft", "1942 ships", "World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean", "Ships built in Kiel", "U-boats sunk by depth charges"], "wgBreakFrames": false, "wgRestrictionEdit": [], "wgRestrictionMove": [], "wgSearchNamespaces": [0], "wgFlaggedRevsParams": {"tags": {"status": {"levels": 1, "quality": 2, "pristine": 3}}}, "wgStableRevisionId": null, "wgVectorEnabledModules": {"collapsiblenav": true, "collapsibletabs": true, "editwarning": true, "expandablesearch": false, "footercleanup": false, "sectioneditlinks": false, "simplesearch": true, "experiments": true}, "wgWikiEditorEnabledModules": {"toolbar": true, "dialogs": true, "hidesig": true, "templateEditor": false, "templates": false, "preview": false, "previewDialog": false, "publish": false, "toc": false}, "wgTrackingToken": "47ed3ddc87f51918ceb05f3f698fbc40", "wikilove-recipient": "", "wikilove-edittoken": "+\\", "wikilove-anon": 0, "mbEditToken": "+\\", "Geo": {"city": "", "country": ""}, "wgNoticeProject": "wikipedia"}); } if ( window.mediaWiki ) { mw.loader.load(["mediawiki.page.startup"]); } German submarine U-221 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Career (Nazi Germany) Name: U-221 Ordered: 15 August 1940 Builder: Germaniawerft, Kiel Yard number: 651 Laid down: 16 June 1941 Launched: 14 March 1942 Commissioned: 9 May 1942 Fate: Sunk by aircraft, 27 September 1943 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 M6V 40/46 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 (20.4 mph; 32.8 km/h) surfaced 7.6 knots (8.7 mph; 14.1 km/h) submerged Range: 15,170 km (8,190 nmi) at 10 kn (19 km/h) surfaced 150 km (81 nmi) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h) submerged Test depth: 230 m (750 ft) Crush depth: 250–295 m (820–968 ft) Complement: 44–52 officers & ratings Armament: • 5 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (4 bow, 1 stern) • 14 × torpedoes or 26 TMA mines • 1 × C35 88mm gun/L45 deck gun (220 rounds) • Various AA guns Service record Part of: 5th U-boat Flotilla (May–August 1942) 7th U-boat Flotilla (September 1942–September 1943) Commanders: Oblt. / Kptlt. Hans-Hartwig Trojer (May 1942–September 1943) Operations: 5 war patrols Victories: 11 commercial vessels (65,589 GRT) German submarine U-221 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Ordered on 15 August 1940 from the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel, she was commissioned into service on 9 May 1942 under the command of Oberleutnant Hans-Hartwig Trojer. She made a total of five war patrols in the Atlantic Ocean against Allied shipping. During these patrols U-221 sank 11 ships for a total of 65,589 gross register tons (GRT) and damaged one ship. U-221 is also credited with the destruction of ten allied landing craft (9 LCMs and 1 LCT) that were lost aboard the British merchant Southern Empress when that vessel was torpedoed and sunk on 14 October 1942. On 8 December 1942 U-221 and U-254 collided at sea in heavy fog resulting in the loss of the later boat. U-221 was heavily damaged. Unable to dive, Oberleutnant Trojer aborted the patrol and returned to St. Nazaire, France. On 27 September 1943, U-221 was attacked with eight depth charges by a British Halifax bomber of No. 58 Squadron RAF Coastal Command off the southwestern coast of Ireland. The Halifax was shot down, but U-221 was sunk. All 50 crew members were killed. 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