Ships Associated with U-boats

WWII

By Chuck Myles


Thanks to CHUCK MYLES (1068-1989) for this data.

GENERAL OSORIO this ship came to the Kriegsmarine 10 April 1940 and she became an accommodations ship in Kiel; 31 December 1943, transferred to Flensburg;

27 July 1944 bombed by RAF Bomber Command planes while in repair dock at Howaldts Werke (Kiel). The after portion of the ship was burnt out and she was partially submerged;

2 October 1944 she was refloated;

29 March 1945 returned to owner, temporarily repaired; 9 April 1945 she was again bombed by RAF Bomber Command aircraft. She was badly damaged and burnt out in Kiel;

29 August 1947 she was refloated;

1947-1948 she was broken up at Inverkeithing.

GENERAL SAN MARTIN came to the Kriegsmarine 22 January 1940 as a U-boat depot ship based at Konigsberg;

15 January 1941 she was transferred to Kiel;

1 October 1941 she was transferred back to Konigsberg; 4 April 1945 she was a hospital ship;

May 1945 she was in Copenhagen trying to escape; 26 June 1946 she was seized as a Prize of War;

8 August 1945 she was given to the British; 1946 was renamed EMPIRE DEBEN;

1949 she was broken up at Newport.

DRESDEN came to the Kriegsmarine in 1940 as a U-boat supply vessel and blockade runner;

25 August 1944 she was scuttled at Bordeaux;

September 1945 she was raised and repaired;

1946 went to France as the DOBA.

EBERSTEIN 1941 sold to Germany, came to the KM 1941 as a torpedo school ship;

May 1945 she was at Lubeck;

28 August 1947 broken up in Great Britain.


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