German submarine U-167 (1942)
IX C/40
M- 05 459
Seebeck Shipyard, Geestemünde
August 15, 1940
706
March 12, 1941
March 5, 1942
July 4, 1941
- July 4, 1942 - February 8, 1943: Kptlt Kurt Neubert
- January 8, 1943 - January 16, 1943: Lt.z.S. Günter Zahnow ( by proxy)
- February 8, 1943 - April 6, 1943; KKpt. Kurt storm
2 patrols
1 ship ( 6,659 GRT)
U 167 was a German U- Boat Type IX C/40, which was used in World War II by the German Navy.
Technology and history
U 167 was one of 4 July 1942 to 30 November 1942 as the 4th U- boat training flotilla in Szczecin and from 1 December 1942 until his scuttling on April 6, 1943 as the 10th U- boat Front Flotilla in Lorient.
On December 3, 1942 at 6:15 clock U ran for 167 fuel supplement in Kristiansand one. Following the addition, the boat was launched on December 4, 1942 at 7:00 clock again. Due to rough sea conditions was 167 U at 13:08 clock in Marviken (Norway ), and on December 5, 1942 at 7:45 clock back there. After an accident at the Fla - arms, the boat ran on the same day back in Kristiansand. On 6 December 1942, at 6:30 clock ran out of Marviken and at 15:30 a clock in Egersund. December 7, 1942 at 7:50 clock ran it again from there and went to Stavanger at 13:05 clock one. On December 8, 1942 at 5:30 clock ran it again from Stavanger. After severe damage to the boat it had run into mountains on the same day at 16:00 clock. After the repair work in the shipyard of mountains, the boat was finally on December 21, 1942 at 13:30 clock from Bergen.
Second patrol
The boat ran from 15:20 clock of St. Nazaire on 27 February 1943. U 167 was operating in the central Atlantic Ocean, on the West African coast, the Azores, the Canary Islands and in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The boat was one of the U- boat groups " Undaunted " and " pirates ".
- On March 17, 1943, the U.S. steamer Molly Pitcher was damaged by a torpedo in the North Atlantic. He had 5,600 tonnes of sugar, coffee, TNT, coal, trucks and tanks loaded and was on his way from New York to Casablanca. The ship was armed with a 5 -inch and a 20 -mm cannon. There were four dead and 70 survivors.
- On March 28, 1943, the British steamer Lagosian ( Lage25.683333 - 15.716667 ) was in the central Atlantic Ocean southeast of the Canary island sunk with 5,449 GRT by a torpedo. He drove in ballast and was on his way out of Algiers and Gibraltar to Takoradi. There were eleven dead and 35 survivors.