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
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Walter Flachsenberg, 12–16 June
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Horst Uphoff, 12–17 June
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Dietrich Lohmann, 12–17 June
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Ernst Vogelsang, 12–17 June
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Rudolf Schendel, 12–17 June
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Werner-Karl Schulz, 12–17 June
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Erich Topp, 12–17 June
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Helmut Möhlmann, 12–17 June
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., 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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