Type | VIIC | |||||||||||||||||
| Ordered | 16 Jan 1940 | |||||||||||||||||
| Laid down | 30 Oct 1940 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 568) | ||||||||||||||||
| Launched | 20 Aug 1941 | |||||||||||||||||
| Commissioned | 16 Oct 1941 | Kptlt. Carl Borm | ||||||||||||||||
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| Career 10 patrols |
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| Successes | 1 ship sunk, total tonnage 3,770 GRT | |||||||||||||||||
| Fate | Sunk at 1000hrs on 31 Jan, 1944 in the North Atlantic south-west of Ireland, in position 50.20N, 17.29W, by depth charges from the British sloops HMS Starling, HMS Wild Goose and HMS Magpie. 49 dead (all hands lost). | |||||||||||||||||
Wolfpack operations
U-592 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Wrangel (11 Mar 1942 - 18 Mar 1942)
Naseweis (10 Apr 1942 - 10 Apr 1942)
Bums (10 Apr 1942 - 14 Apr 1942)
Blutrausch (15 Apr 1942 - 19 Apr 1942)
Nebelkönig (27 Jul 1942 - 13 Aug 1942)
Trägertod (19 Sep 1942 - 22 Sep 1942)
Boreas (19 Nov 1942 - 9 Dec 1942)
Seeteufel (21 Mar 1943 - 30 Mar 1943)
Löwenherz (1 Apr 1943 - 10 Apr 1943)
Siegfried (22 Oct 1943 - 27 Oct 1943)
Siegfried 2 (27 Oct 1943 - 30 Oct 1943)
Jahn (31 Oct 1943 - 2 Nov 1943)
Tirpitz 4 (2 Nov 1943 - 8 Nov 1943)
Eisenhart 8 (9 Nov 1943 - 10 Nov 1943)
Rügen (21 Jan 1944 - 26 Jan 1944)
Hinein (26 Jan 1944 - 29 Jan 1944)
Attacks on this boat
29 Jan 1944
The boat was seriously damaged by a very determined attack by B-24 Liberator aircraft (USN VB/100, H.H. Budd). The Liberator was damaged as well but the U-boat dived and escaped. She radioed her encounter in and was hunted down by Walker's famous Support Group 2 using Enigma on January 31. (Sources: Blair, vol 2, page 488)
1 recorded attack on this boat.
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-592 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
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