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The Sylt wolfpack's boats were divided, together with those of the Amrum and Föhr wolfpacks, into the six elements of the Rügen wolfpack. Rügen 1: 23 Dec 1943 7 Jan 1944 8 1 1 0 Part of a seven-part wolfpack operation in the Atlantic Ocean vs convoy ON.217. Comprised U-364, U-545, U-547, U-741, U-744, U-762, U-972 and U-981. Rügen 2: 23 Dec ...
The wolfpack was a convoy attack tactic employed in the Second World War. It was used principally by the U-boats of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic , and by the submarines of the United States Navy in the Pacific War .
The ship continued to fight as best it could and launched several torpedoes at a nearby enemy battleship but fires, loss of power, and exploding ammunition prompted the order to abandon ship at 0230. The ship's burning hulk stayed afloat until 1700 that afternoon before it finally sank. 70 men of Cushing's crew were lost.
Seewolf was the name of three separate wolfpacks of German U-boats that ... though five independently routed ships were ... it was the last wolfpack of the Atlantic ...
Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II (496 P) W. Wolfpacks of 1940 (2 P) Wolfpacks of 1941 (4 P) ... Wolfpack (naval tactic) List of wolfpacks of World War ...
The first wolfpack code-named Hecht, comprising three U-boats, operated east of Iceland from 27 January to 4 February 1942. [1] During this period one Allied convoy passed through Hecht's patrol area, Arctic convoy PQ 9/10, comprising ten merchant ships bound for the Soviet Union.
The ships departed from Liverpool on 6 May 1942 [1] and were joined on 7 May [2] by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group A-3. The convoy was discovered by Wolfpack Hecht on 11 May; seven ships were sunk before the U-boats lost contact with the convoy on 13 May. [3] Surviving ships reached Halifax, Nova Scotia on 21 May. [1]
Endrass was a "wolfpack" of German U-boats that operated from 12 to 17 June 1942 in attacking Convoy HG 84 that comprised 23 Allied ships. The group's name commemorated the U-boat commander Engelbert Endrass, who was killed in action in December 1941. [1]