U-613
Type | VIIC | |||||||||
| Ordered | 15 Aug 1940 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 6 May 1941 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 589) | ||||||||
| Launched | 29 Jan 1942 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 12 Mar 1942 | Kptlt. Helmut Köppe | ||||||||
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| Career 4 patrols |
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| Successes | 2 ships sunk for a total of 8,087 GRT | |||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 23 July, 1943 in the mid-Atlantic south of the Azores, in position 35.32N, 28.36W, by depth charges from the US destroyer USS George E. Badger. 48 dead (all hands lost). | |||||||||
Wolfpack operations
U-613 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Natter (2 Nov 1942 - 8 Nov 1942)
Westwall (8 Nov 1942 - 18 Nov 1942)
Habicht (10 Jan 1943 - 19 Jan 1943)
Haudegen (19 Jan 1943 - 9 Feb 1943)
Adler (7 Apr 1943 - 13 Apr 1943)
Meise (13 Apr 1943 - 25 Apr 1943)
Attacks on this boat
17 Nov 1942
The new boat was attacked by a British Hudson bomber (Sqdn, 608, pilot J. B. R. Petrie) and seriously damaged. She managed to limp to France with assistance from other boats. (Sources: Blair, vol 2, page 113)
1 May 1943
At 00.07 hours, the inbound boat was attacked by the British Wellington aircraft (172 Sqdn RAF/N, pilot Sgt P.W. Phillips) in the Bay of Biscay. The aircraft used Leigh Light to strafe its target and dropped six depth charges. The boat crash-dived and suffered only light damages, but the hydraulics and the port tyre of the aircraft had been damaged by AA fire and it crash-landed back at the base at Predannack, no casualties among the crew of six.
2 recorded attacks 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-613 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
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