Type | VIIC | |||||||||
| Ordered | 8 Jan 1940 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 1 Oct 1940 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 561) | ||||||||
| Launched | 9 Jul 1941 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 28 Aug 1941 | Kptlt. Ernst-Bernward Lohse | ||||||||
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| Career 4 patrols |
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| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | |||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 30 March, 1942 in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, Russia, in position 70.00N, 34.00E, by a German mine which had drifted from the ´Bantos-A´ barrage. 44 dead (all hands lost). (Claude Huan, January 1977). | |||||||||
Previously recorded fate
- Sunk by the British destroyer HMS Fury on 29 March, 1942 in position 72.15N, 34.22E. (Postwar assessment, January 1977)
Notes. This attack was actually against U-378 causing no damage. - Sunk by the Soviet destroyer Gremyashchiy on 30 March, 1942 in position 69.36N, 34.03E.
Notes. This attack was actually against U-435 causing no damage.
Wolfpack operations
U-585 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Eiswolf (29 Mar 1942 - 30 Mar 1942)
Attacks on this boat
24 Mar 1942
On 24 March, 1942 U-585 was attacked by 3 enemy ships with depth charges, and was forced to return to base due to damage to all forward torpedo tubes.
29 Mar 1942
At 06.50 hours, M-171 fired both of its torpedoes from a distance of about 1800 meters at an outbound U-boat in the Varangerfjord and claimed a hit after hearing a detonation. This must have been U-585, which did not report an attack. (Sources: Rohwer)
2 recorded attacks on this boat.
Men lost from the boat
5 Feb 1942
The 21 year old Fähnrich zur See Eberhardt Vollmer (Crew 1940) was lost overboard in the south Barents Sea.
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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