U-89
Type | VIIC | |||||||||
| Ordered | 25 Jan 1939 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 20 Aug 1940 | Flender Werke AG, Lübeck (werk 293) | ||||||||
| Launched | 20 Sep 1941 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 19 Nov 1941 | Kptlt. Dietrich Lohmann | ||||||||
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| Career 5 patrols |
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| Successes | 4 ships sunk for a total of 13,815 GRT | |||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 12 May, 1943 in the Northern Atlantic, in position 46.30N, 25.40W by a Swordfish aircraft (Sqdn. 811) from the British carrier HMS Biter, the British destroyer HMS Broadway and the British frigate HMS Lagan. 48 dead (all hands lost). | |||||||||
Wolfpack operations
U-89 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Endrass (12 Jun 1942 - 17 Jun 1942)
Tümmler (4 Oct 1942 - 7 Oct 1942)
Panther (10 Oct 1942 - 20 Oct 1942)
Veilchen (20 Oct 1942 - 5 Nov 1942)
Pfeil (1 Feb 1943 - 9 Feb 1943)
Neptun (20 Feb 1943 - 28 Feb 1943)
Wildfang (28 Feb 1943 - 5 Mar 1943)
Burggraf (5 Mar 1943 - 5 Mar 1943)
Raubgraf (7 Mar 1943 - 15 Mar 1943)
Drossel (29 Apr 1943 - 12 May 1943)
Attacks on this boat
5 Nov 1942
On 5 Nov, 1942 in the Northern Atlantic south-east Cape Farewell, Greenland, in position 58.08N, 33.13W a British B-24 Liberator aircraft (120 Sqdn.) was thought to have sunk the U-132.
This attack was against U-89 inflicting severe damage.
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-89 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
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There was another U-89 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 6 Oct 1916 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 21 Jun 1917. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about the U 89 during WWI.