List of all U-boats
U-512
Type | IXC | |||||||||
| Ordered | 20 Oct 1939 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 24 Feb 1941 | Deutsche Werft AG, Hamburg (werk 308) | ||||||||
| Launched | 9 Oct 1941 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 20 Dec 1941 | Kptlt. Wolfgang Schultze | ||||||||
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| Successes | 3 ships sunk, total tonnage 20,619 GRT | |||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 2 Oct, 1942 north of Cayenne, in position 06.50N, 52.25W, by depth charges from an American B-18 A aircraft (US Army Bomb. Sqdn. 99). 51 dead and 1 survivor. | |||||||||
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General notes on this boat
2 Oct 1942. The sole survivor, Matrosengefreiter Franz Machen, spent 10 days on a life raft which the aircraft dropped to his aid before being rescued by the US destroyer USS Ellis (DD-154). He survived partly by killing and eating seabirds that attacked him while he lay exposed on the raft.
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-512 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
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