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| U-199 | Type IXD2 |
| Feldpost Number | M 50 247 |
| Construction Yard | Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG, (AG Weser) Bremen |
| Yard Number | 1045 |
| Ordered | 4th Nov 1940 |
| Keel laid | 10th Oct 1941 |
| Launched | 11th Jul 1942 |
| Commissioned | 28th Nov 1942 |
| Baubelehrung | 6.KLA, Bremen | | Training, Flotillas and Duties | | 11.42 - 05.43 | 4.U-Flottille, Stettin
Ausbildungsboot (under training)
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| 05.43 - 07.43 | 12.U-Flottille, Bordeaux
Frontboot (operational)
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| Commanders | | 11.42 - 07.43 | KL Hans-Werner Kraus
see also: U-83 |
| Operations information for U-199 | 13.05.1943 - 31.07.1943
First Sailing - active patrol
U-199 left Kiel under the command of Hans-Werner Kraus on 13th May 1943 for operations off Brazil. U-199 was lost on 31st Jul 1943.
Hans-Werner Kraus hit two ships on this patrol.-
On 4th Jul 1943 he sank the Brazilian ??? ton Shangri-Lá.
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On 24th Jul 1943 he sank the British 4,161 ton Henzada.
In July 1943 a Brazilian fishing boat, the Shangri-lá, disappeared near Arrail do Cabo, north of Rio de Janeiro, with the loss of her 10-man-crew. The vessel had left Arrail do Cabo about 4 am on 4th July and was never seen again. In 2000, the Maritime Tribunal of Rio de Janeiro decided that the vessel had been sunk by gunfire from U-199, and declared the crew of the sailing vessel heroes of war. The tribunal's judgment was based on the American Report of Interrogation of U 199 survivors and a shooting report sent to BdU. On the 5th of July Kraus had reported sinking a sailing vessel by artillery on the previous day, this matches the loss of Shangri-Lá
Thanks to Christine Hillman for information about Shangri-Lá.
Air Attacks this patrol
| On 3rd July 1943 while south-east of Rio de Janeiro (square GB1815) U-199 was attacked by a Mariner of VP74 (LtJg H C Carey). The crew however were alert and promptly shot down the aircraft on its first attack run before any d/cs could be released. None of the aircrew survived. |
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| Notes for U-199 | Thanks to Christine Hillmann who writes that U-199 could have engaged Bury:
Bury (1920)
3.036 GRT
ex- brit. Mellon, ex- brit. Penhill, ex- brit. Braeside
Launched as War Regalia, completed as Mellon for the Shipping Controller, managed by Royal Mail S.P. Co, Shanghai; delivered July 1920
1922 Board of Trade, London, GB
1923 Pencisely SS Co (Hopkins, Saunders & Co), Cardiff, renamed Penhill
1934 Shipping Co (W.S.Hinde), Cardiff, same name
1935 Braeside Shipping Co (W.S.Hinde), Cardiff, renamed Braeside
1936 Cia Commércio & Navegação, Rio de Janeiro, renamed Bury
1957 Navegacão Mercantil SA, Rio de Janeiro, same name
Fate: 1965 scrapped Brazil
Notes: The Bury (Master Orlando Soares Pires) reported having been attacked by a U-boat near Rio de Janeiro, 23o22' S - 44o37' W, at about 07h (local time) on July 4, 1943, but sustained no damage. The ship may have been attacked by U-199.
Sources:
Report on the Interrogation of Survivors from U-199 online: www.uboatarchive.net
História Naval Brasileiro - Vol. V, Tomo II; Serviço de Documentação da Marinha, Rio de Janeiro 1985; p. 340
www.mariners-l.co.uk/WWIStandardShipsWarP.htm
fate of U-199
On 31st July 1943 U-199 was located near St Paul's Rocks by a Mariner of VP-74 (Lt N F Smith). Smith dropped 6 d/cs which damaged the cumbersome type IXD2, so Kraus could no longer dive the boat. Two more aircraft then came in to assist the kill. A Brazilian Hudson of 7th Air Base Corps FAB (Lt S C Schnoor) circled U-199 and kept up a withering hail of fire, while a Brazilian Catalina (No.14, Cadet A M Torres) arrived and dropped d/cs in two attacks, sinking U-199.
Kraus and 11 of his crew were rescued some time later by the Barnegat. 49 of U-199's crew were lost.
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 | | Joseph Breu | | Courtesy Mathieu de Wolf | | 19 year old Joseph Breu and 48 of his comrades lost their lives in the air attack that sank their boat off St. Paul's Rocks on 31st July 1943. |
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