Wolfpack Endrass
Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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]
U-boats, commanders and dates
- Template:GS, Walter Flachsenberg, 12–16 June
- Template:GS, Horst Uphoff, 12–17 June
- Template:GS, Dietrich Lohmann, 12–17 June
- Template:GS, Ernst Vogelsang, 12–17 June
- Template:GS, Rudolf Schendel, 12–17 June
- Template:GS, Werner-Karl Schulz, 12–17 June
- Template:GS, Erich Topp, 12–17 June
- Template:GS, Helmut Möhlmann, 12–17 June
- Template:GS, Günther Heydemann, 12–17 June
Ships hit by this Wolfpack
Five ships of Convoy HG 84, assembled at Gibraltar for passage to Liverpool, were sunk, all by the U-boat U-552 in the early hours of 15 June.
Etrib, Pelayo & Slemdal
The first attack came at 00:59, about Script error: No such module "convert". west of Corunna, Spain, when U-552 fired torpedoes at the convoy and hit and sank the 1,943-ton British merchant ship Etrib,[2] the 1,346-ton British merchant ship Pelayo,[3] and the 7,374-ton Norwegian tanker Slemdal.[4]
City of Oxford and Thurso
U-552 struck again at 04:34, firing three torpedoes at the convoy. Two British merchant ships, the 2,759-ton Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".[5] and the 2,436-ton Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".[6] were hit and sunk.
References
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