German submarine U-576 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She carried out five patrols, sinking four ships of 15,450 gross register tons (GRT) and damaging two more of 19,457 GRT .

On 15 July 1942 convoy KS 520, proceeding from Norfolk to Key West, Fla encountered U-576 off Cape Hatteras. The U-boat sank one ship and damaged two others before she was sunk by shells from the stern gun of the US motor merchant Unicoi (Master J. Muhle) and four depth charges from two OS2U Kingfisher aircraft (pilots Ens. Frank C. Lewis and ...

The U-576, already damaged, surfaced in the middle of the convoy and immediately the Armed Guard crew on the merchant ship, Unicoi, opened fire and scored a hit. Almost concurrently, two U. S. Navy Kingfisher aircraft straddled the U-576 with depth charges and sent it to the bottom of the sea with all 45 crew members. Over the next hour, Escort ...

2018年12月31日 · One of these doomed submarines— U-576, piloted by 29-year-old captain-lieutenant Hans-Dieter Heinicke —was rediscovered in 2014 some 72 years after its July 15, 1942, sinking. It remained...

2014年10月22日 · U-576 torpedoed Bluefields and damaged two others while they were traveling in a convoy of 19 ships to Key West on July 15, 1942. But the U-boat was also sunk within minutes by a U.S. Navy ...

U-576 was a German U-boat built in 1940 and launched the following year under the command of Kapitӓnleutnant Hans-Dieter Heinicke. Heinicke and his 45-man crew went on four patrols as part of the seventh U-boat flotilla based in St. Nazaire, France, but they did not sink any enemy vessels during their first two patrols off the coasts of Russia ...

2014年10月21日 · The German sub, the U-576, was found at the bottom of the Atlantic 30 miles off Cape Hatteras and just 240 yards from an American merchant ship, the merchant tanker Bluefields, which was part of...

U-576. Present Day: Searching for the Battlefield. Despite the wealth of available primary source data, and numerous secondary analyses of the KS-520 conflict, only the locations of the Keshena and Chilore were known. So when the team of maritime archaeologists set out to search for the underwater battlefield, remote sensing survey was a major ...

U-576 departed for its fifth and final war deployment on June 16, 1942, from St. Nazaire, France, ultimately bound for Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. During this period, U-576 pursued several ships and attempted to coordinate an attack with another German submarine.

German submarine U-576 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She carried out five patrols, sinking four ships of 15,450 gross register tons (GRT) and damaging two more of 19,457 GRT.