
Atlantis made it through North Atlantic on, whereas U-37 sailed along the western and the southern coasts of Iceland, and headed then back to Shetland where she sunk 3 ships before returning to base. U-Boot storie di uomini e sommergibili nella seconda guerra mondiale. The raider and the U-boat proceeded then to the Denmark Strait where, in view of the sub-zero temperatures and harsh sea conditions that were threatening the safety of the submarine, they parted company. Shortly after she met again the U-37 and re-fuelled her. She continued towards the north-east, only swinging west when she had reached the Murmansk to Iceland shipping lane, setting course for Jan Mayen Island. The warships finally gave up the chase and disappeared, leaving Atlantis to slow down.

Atlantis was pushed at her top speed of 17.5 knots in order to outrun her pursuers. Soon after, two warships were spotted on the horizon. U-37 could no longer safely keep up with the raider and fell behind. Gli U-Boot furono anche strumenti di propaganda: i bambini giocavano con i loro modellini comprati con le monete raffiguranti l’effige del celebre affondamento del transatlantico.

Derivato dal precedente prototipo Tipo I-A, l'U-Boot Tipo IX fu ideato come un U-Boot a largo raggio con molta pi autonomia di quanta potesse essere raggiunta dal Tipo VII.

About when the group was getting into the dangerous waters between the Shetland Islands and the coast of Norway, the weather deteriorated. Non a caso lo stesso destino tocc ai sommergibili U-Boot, che imbattibili fino allo scoppi della seconda guerra mondiale trovarono in essa la propria fine. L'U-Boot Klasse IX, ufficialmente Typ IX, fu una classe di sommergibili U-Boote della Kriegsmarine. Besides U-37, her escort was composed of the torpedo boats Wolf and Leopard that accompanied the German raider in the very first leg of her passage into the North Sea. This one was the first attempt by the German cruiser to breakthrough in the Atlantic. Lontano dalle luci della ribalta, la lunga collaborazione italiana con l'industria navale tedesca per la costruzione di sommergibili sta riprendendo piede con la notizia che Fincantieri costruir altri quattro sommergibili U-212 NFS per la Marina Militare Italiana in collaborazione con Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems. Nellambito dellintelligence militare, la componente dei sommergibili storicamente uno. The flotilla was disbanded in September 1944, when U-407 was sunk on September 19 and the two last flotilla boats U-565 and U-596 were scuttled in Salamis.U-37 (type IX), 4th patrol outbound Wilhelmshaven,, inbound Wilhelmshaven, Įhrenfels class German auxiliary cruiser HSK-2 / Schiff 16 Atlantis bound from Süderpiep Bay, Schleswig-Holstein to the Indian Ocean U-Boot S 173 ( U 24) der Bundesmarine unterwegs im Nord-Ostsee.

In August 1943, the flotilla moved to Toulon, but did also have U-boats in Marseille and Salamis. Nei cieli si conseguirono forse i risultati pi spettacolari, anche se non decisivi per le sorti del conflitto. P31 left for Alexandria on 26th April followed. In mare una minaccia era rappresentata dai sommergibili (U-boot) tedeschi: emergevano improvvisamente e affondavano le navi nemiche senza poter essere preventivamente individuati. The flotilla operated mostly various marks of the Type VII U-boat and it concentrated its efforts mainly in the Mediterranean Sea, against convoys. If you read Hezlets book, you will see the following on page 151 (volume 1). Unterseebootsflottille") was formed in December 1941 in La Spezia in Italy under the command of Korvettenkapitän Franz Becker.
