U-104

Type: IX-B
Built by: AG Weser (Bremen)
Launched: 15 May, 1940
Commissioned: 19 October, 1940
Feldpost Nr.: M07089
Sunk: 30 November, 1940
Sunk by: HMS RHODODENDRUM (CV)
Location sunk: So. of Rockall
Position sunk: 56.28N x 14.13W
(all hands lost)

Her only Skipper was Kplt Harald Mrst, and U-104 was lost in the North Atlantic on her first feindfahrten (war patrol). On 27 November, 1940 U-104 attacked two ships, sinking the 8,240 ton British steamer DIPLOMAT and damaging the 10,516 ton British tanker CHARLES F. MEYER.

U-105

Type: IX-B
Built by: AG Weser (Bremen)
Launched: 15 June, 1940
Commissioned: 10 September, 1940
Feldpost Nr.: M22946
Date sunk: 2 June, 1943
Sunk by: French A/C
Location sunk: off Dakar
Position sunk: 14.15N x 17.35W
(all hands, 53 men, lost),

Skippers of U-105 were KPLT Schewe, a winner of the KNIGHTS CROSS who also served on U-60 and was later Chief of the 33rd UBootflotille; K.K. Schuch (from 13 December, 1941) who also served on U-37, U-38 and U-154; and OBLT Nissen (from 29 October, 1942. U- 105 was assigned to the 2nd U-Bootflotille at LorientasaFrontboot. U-105 had four Feindfahrtenen (war patrols) in the North Atlantic; another off Sierra Leone on the African coast in March of 1941; off Brazil and Venezuela in December of 1942, then on the east coast of the USA in March of 1943.

U-105 took on supplies from the raider SHIFF 41 which was the KORMORAN, from 29 March to 2 April in 1941; then again from NORDMARK over8/9 April 1941 and again over 3/4 May, 1941; fromEGERLAND over 19/21 May, 1941; from CORRIENTES in the Canary Islands on5March194l. U-105 rescued 25 German crewmen and 55 Allied Prisoners from the sunken German supply ship SPREEWALD. U105 laid over for repairs in El Ferrol, Spain from 12 June to 28 June, 1942 after she suffered severe damage from air attack. Our files contain some of the logbook (KTB) of U-105, but it is very lengthy and so will not be in this issue.

SHIPS SUNK BY U-105 UNDER SCHEWE
09.01.41	BASSANO	Brit stmr	4,843 GRT
26.01.41	HEEMSKERCK	Neth stmr	6,516 GRT
08.03.41	HARMODIUS	Brit stmr	5,229 GRT
18.03.41	MADJERDA	Brit stmr	4,380 GRT
19.03.41	MANDELIKA	Neth stmr	7,750 GRT
(There was a claim of sinking another 6,000 ton ship on this attack, but no confirmation.)
21.03.41	CLAN OGILVY	Brit stmr	5,802 GRT
21.03.41	BENWYVIS	Brit stmr	5,920 GRT
21.03.41	JHELUM	Brit stmr	4,038 GRT
05.04.41	ENA DE LARRINAGA	Brit stmr	5,200 GRT
06.05.41	OAKDENE	Brit stmr	4,255 GRT
13.05.41	BENVRACKLE	Brit stmr	6,434 GRT
15.05.41	BENVENUE	Brit stmr	5,920 GRT
16.05.41	RODNEY STAR	Brit stmr	11,803 GRT
01.06.41	SCO777SH MONARCH	Brit stmr	4,719 GRT
11.09.41	MONTANA	Pana stmr	1,549 GRT
31.01.42	HMS CULVERBRIT	ASW	1,546 GRT
After a large explosion, U-105 assumed a hit on an ammunition ship but in fact, was the CULVER which was equipped with the first operational HF/DF (HUFF/DUFF) direction finder radio.
SHIPS SUNK BY U-105 UNDER SCHUCH
25.03.42	NARRAGANNSETT	Brit tnkr	10,389 GRT
27.03.42	SVENOR	Norw tnkr	7,616 GRT
U-105 claimed another ship of 3,000 GRT damaged, but there was no confirmation)
SHIPS SUNK BY U-105 UNDER NISSEN
14.12.42	ORFOR	Brit stmr	6,578 GRT
11.01.43	C. S. FLIGHT	Brit sail	67 GRT
24.01.43	BRITISH VIGILANCE	Brit tnkr	8,093 GRT
(This ship had been severely damaged in a previous engagement and was abandoned. U-105 came upon the empty ship and sank her with two torpedoes.)
27.01.43	CAPE DECISION	Amer mtrshp	5,196 GRT
15.05.43	MARROUSSIO LOGOTHETIS	Grk stmr	4,669GRT