Patrol info for U-74
| Departure | Arrival / Fate | Duration | ||
| 8 May 1941 | St. Nazaire | 30 May 1941 | Lorient | 23 days |
Commander | Officers * | ||
 Kptlt. Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat |
1WO Oblt. Ulrich Gräf |
2WO Ltn. Karl Friederich |
Cdr sea training Axel-Olaf Loewe |
Daily positions, sinkings and allied attacks during the patrol of U-74
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We have daily positions for all 23 days on this patrol.
Departure from St. Nazaire on 8 May 1941.
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Arrival at Lorient on 30 May 1941.
Wolfpack operations during this patrol
U-74 operated with the following Wolfpacks during this patrol
West (13 May 1941 - 22 May 1941)
Ships hit by U-74 during this patrol
No entries found.
General Events during this patrol
1941
26 May 1941. Read about U-74's involvement in the last desperate hours of the battleship Bismarck here.
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Attacks on U-74 during this patrol
21 May 1941
The boat was forced to dive by gunfire from HMS Verbena behind convoy HX-126 and in the next 4 hours heavily attacked with about 125 depth charges by her and HMS Burnham until the corvette ran out of depth charges and the sonar contact was lost. The boat had been badly damaged in the attack and was forced to return to base.
30 May 1941
The inbound boat, already heavily damaged after a previous depth charge attack and carrying 3 survivors from the Bismarck, was attacked by the British submarine HMS Sealion in the Bay of Biscay about 45 miles southwest of Belle-Ile. U-74 was unable to dive due to chlorine gas from the damaged batteries, but the alert deck watch managed to evade the spread of six torpedoes and the boat safely arrived at port.
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