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U-507

Type

IXC

 
Ordered20 Oct, 1939
Laid down 11 Sep, 1940 Deutsche Werft AG, Hamburg (werk 303)
Launched15 Jul, 1941
Commissioned8 Oct, 1941Korvkpt. Harro Schacht (Knights Cross)
Commanders
8 Oct, 1941 - 13 Jan, 1943  KrvKpt. Harro Schacht (Knights Cross)
Career4 patrols 8 Oct, 1941 - 28 Feb, 1942  4. Flottille (training)
1 Mar, 1942 - 13 Jan, 1943  2. Flottille (front boat)
Successes19 ships sunk for a total of 77.143 GRT
1 ship damaged for a total of 6.561 GRT
Fate

Sunk 13 Jan, 1943 in the South Atlantic north-west of Natal, in position 01.38S, 39.52W, by depth charges from a US Catalina aircraft (VP-83/P-10). 54 dead (all hands lost).

See the 20 ships hit by U-507 - View the 4 war patrols

Attacks on this boat

9 May, 1942
The U-boat was attacked by an US Navy PBY Catalina aircraft about 225 miles south of its base at Pensacola. (Sources: Ragnar J. Ragnarsson)

10 May, 1942
The U-boat was attacked by an US Navy PBY Catalina aircraft about 56 miles south-southwest of its base at Pensacola. (Sources: Ragnar J. Ragnarsson)

2 recorded attacks on this boat.

General notes on this boat

A survivor from the merchant Baron Dechmont, sunk by this boat on Jan 3, was also lost when U-507 was sunk 10 days later.

U-507 (along with U-156 and U-506 and Italian submarine Cappellini) took part in the rescue operations after the sinking of SS Laconia in September 1942 off Africa. About 1500 men were saved by these boats and French ships from Dakar (which arrived on Sept 16, 4 days after the sinking).

Men lost from the boat

7 Oct, 1942
One man lost after illness at sea. [Obersteuermann Kurt Warkentin]

  Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -



Torpedoes in the Gulf

Wiggins, Melanie

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Books dealing with this subject include:

Dark Sky, Deep Water, Franks, Norman, 1997 (transl.)
German U-Boat Losses During World War II, Niestle, Axel, 1998
Torpedoes in the Gulf, Wiggins, Melanie, 1995
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1, Wynn, Kenneth, 1998
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2, Wynn, Kenneth, 1998