German submarine U-176

Unterseeboot 176 or U-176 was a German Type IXC World War II submarine commissioned on 15 December 1941 and served with 4. Unterseebootsflottille (U-Boat Flotilla) for training later, U-176 served with 10. Unterseebootsflottille, a long-range operations unit, from 1 August 1942 until she was sunk. U-176 completed three patrols sinking 10 ships totalling 45,850 Gross Registered Tonnage or GRT, and damaging one ship totalling 7,457 GRT.

Sunking of U176

U-176 departed from the French port of Lorient under command of Lieutnant Rainer Dirksen. On 13 May 1943 the U-176 sunk the US tanker "Nickeliner" only 5 miles of the coast of Cuba. The US Navysend a convoy escort for the merchant ships "Camaguey" and "Hanks" and an escort for the Cuban submarine-killers CS-11, CS-12 and CS-13. U-176 was sunk on 15 May 1943 northeast of Havana by depth charges dropped by a Cuban patrol boat, "CS-13", after being located by a U.S. Navy Kingfisher.

Record of the U-boat 176

The submarineU-boat 176 , it has the record inside the Nazi German Kriegsmarine U-boat fleet. It was in persecution over a single merchant ship. The Uboat-176 chased the merchant Dutch “Polydorus” during 50 continuous hours before to sink it, November 27, 1942. The Vought Sikorsky Kingfisher from (VS-62 [http://www.history.navy.mil/library/] squad) that participated in the detection of the U-176, took off from Cayo Francés Navy Force Station in Cuba. On May 13th, 1943, the Uboat-176, at the same time, with only minutes of difference from its attack to “Nickeliner”, also attacked and sunk the Cuban merchant ship “Mambí” only 11 survived (See crew members from the Cuban merchant "Mambi" on raft May 13,1943 [ [http://www.freewebs.com/uboat176/apps/photos/photo.jsp?photoID=5608029 The Death Cross the Caribean | ] ] ). The Cuban submarine chaser SC-13 [ [http://www.freewebs.com/uboat176/chapterno1.htm The Death Cross the Caribean | ] ] that sunk the Uboat-176 was commanded by the Cuban Navy sub-Lieutenant Mario Ramirez Delgado. At the end of the WWII because this combat action, he was promoted to Lieutenant (Captain of Corvette) and ordered in Cuba with the Naval Merit Medal with Red Distinctive. Rear Admiral Samuel E. Morison recognized both SC-13 and Cuban Navy achievement in his 15 volume collection History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Lieutenant Ramirez and his crewmen, they also received recognition from the United States Congress of America.

References

Bobliography

*Bishop, C. "Kriegsmarine U-Boats, 1939-45". Amber Books, 2006.

External links

*http://www.cubaenelmundo.com/Articulos/byrne/byrnemario3.htm
*http://www.freewebs.com/uboat176
*http://www.history.navy.mil/library/