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|Ship image=U-110 and HMS Bulldog.jpg

|Ship image size=300px

|Ship caption={{GS|U-110|1940|2}}, a U-boat of the same type as U-105

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|Ship country=Nazi Germany

|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Nazi Germany|naval}}

|Ship name=U-105

|Ship ordered=24 May 1938{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/u105.htm |title=The Type IXB boat U-105 |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=3 July 2011}}

|Ship builder=DeSchiMAG AG Weser, Bremen

|Ship yard number=968

|Ship laid down=16 November 1939

|Ship launched=15 June 1940

|Ship commissioned=10 September 1940

|Ship homeport=Lorient, France{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/u105.html |title=War Patrols by U-105 |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=3 July 2011 }}

|Ship fate=Sunk on 2 June 1943 near Dakar by French Potez-CAMS 141 flying boat Antarès. 53 dead (all hands lost){{sfn|Kemp|1999|p=123}}

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{{Infobox ship characteristics

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|Ship class=Type IXB submarine

|Ship displacement=

  • {{convert|1051|t|LT|abbr=on|lk=on}} surfaced
  • {{convert|1178|t|LT|abbr=on}} submerged

|Ship length=

  • {{convert|76.50|m|ft|abbr=on|0}} o/a
  • {{convert|58.75|m|ftin|abbr=on}} pressure hull

|Ship beam=

  • {{convert|6.76|m|ftin|abbr=on}} o/a
  • {{convert|4.40|m|ftin|abbr=on}} pressure hull

|Ship draught=

  • {{convert|4.70|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|Ship speed=

  • {{convert|18.2|kn|lk=in}} surfaced
  • {{convert|7.3|kn}} submerged

|Ship range=

  • {{convert|12,000|nmi|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|10|kn}} surfaced
  • {{convert|64|nmi|abbr=on}} at {{convert|4|kn}} submerged

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{{Infobox service record

|is_ship=yes

|label=Service record

|partof=

|codes=M 22 946

|commanders=

|operations=*9 patrols:

  • 1st patrol:
  • 24 December 1940 – 31 January 1941
  • 2nd patrol:
  • 22 February – 13 June 1941
  • 3rd patrol:
  • 3 August – 20 September 1941
  • 4th patrol:
  • 8 November – 13 December 1941
  • 5th patrol:
  • 25 January – 8 February 1942
  • 6th patrol:
  • 25 February – 15 April 1942
  • 7th patrol:
  • a. 7 – 12 June 1942
  • b. 28 – 30 June 1942
  • 8th patrol:
  • 23 November 1942 – 14 February 1943
  • 9th patrol:
  • 16 March – 2 June 1943

|victories=

  • 22 merchant ships sunk
    ({{GRT|123,924}}){{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/successes/details.php?boat=105 |title=Ships hit by U-105 |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=3 July 2011}}
  • 1 warship sunk
    (1,546 tons)

}}

German submarine U-105 was a Type IXB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. She was ordered on 24 May 1938 as part of Germany's naval rearmament program. Her keel was laid down in Bremen on 16 November 1938. After roughly seven months of construction, she was launched on 15 June 1940 and formally commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on 10 September 1940.

During her three-year career, U-105 sank 23 vessels for a total loss of {{GRT|123,924|disp=long}} and 1,546 tons before being sunk by the Free French Forces off the coast of Dakar (Senegal) on 2 June 1943.

Construction and design

=Construction=

{{main|Type IXB submarine}}

U-105 was ordered by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine on 24 May 1938; her keel was laid down on 16 November 1938 by DeSchiMAG AG Weser in Bremen as yard number 968. She was launched on 15 June 1940 and commissioned on 10 September under the command of Kapitänleutnant Georg Schewe.

=Design=

Type IXB submarines were slightly larger than the original Type IX submarines, later designated IXA. U-105 had a displacement of {{convert|1051|t|LT}} when at the surface and {{convert|1178|t|LT}} while submerged.{{sfn|Gröner|1991|p=68}} The U-boat had a total length of {{convert|76.50|m|ft|abbr=on|0}}, a pressure hull length of {{convert|58.75|m|ftin|abbr=on}}, a beam of {{convert|6.76|m|ftin|abbr=on}}, a height of {{convert|9.60|m|ftin|abbr=on}}, and a draught of {{convert|4.70|m|ftin|abbr=on}}. The submarine was powered by two MAN M 9 V 40/46 supercharged four-stroke, nine-cylinder diesel engines producing a total of {{convert|4400|PS|kW shp|-1}} for use while surfaced, two Siemens-Schuckert 2 GU 345/34 double-acting electric motors producing a total of {{convert|1000|PS|kW shp|-1}} for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two {{convert|1.92|m|ft|abbr=on|0}} propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to {{convert|230|m}}.{{sfn|Gröner|1991|p=68}}

The submarine had a maximum surface speed of {{convert|18.2|kn}} and a maximum submerged speed of {{convert|7.3|kn}}.{{sfn|Gröner|1991|p=68}} When submerged, the boat could operate for {{convert|64|nmi}} at {{convert|4|kn}}; when surfaced, she could travel {{convert|12000|nmi}} at {{convert|10|kn}}. U-105 was fitted with six {{convert|53.3|cm|in|0|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and two at the stern), 22 torpedoes, one 10.5 cm SK C/32 naval gun, 180 rounds, and a 3.7 cm SK C/30 as well as a 2 cm FlaK 30 anti-aircraft gun. The boat had a complement of forty-eight.{{sfn|Gröner|1991|p=68}}

Service history

Under the command of Kapitänleutnant Georg Schewe, U-105 left Kiel on 24 December 1940. She spent 39 days in the North Sea. During this patrol, she sank the British ship Bassano on 9 January 1941,{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=487}} and Lurigethan, part of Convoy SL-61, on 26 January 1941, totalling {{GRT|8,407|link=off}}. Five days later, on 31 January, U-105 arrived at the German-occupied port of Lorient, France,{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_3704.html |title=Patrol info for U-105 (First patrol) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=4 July 2011}} which would remain her home port for the rest of her career.

=1941=

U-105 left Lorient on her second patrol on 22 February 1941 and underwent a 112-day voyage in the Atlantic Ocean. Along with {{GS|U-124|1940|2}}, she was directed by the Oberkommando der Marine (Supreme naval headquarters), to attack Convoy SL-67.{{Cite book |last=Garzke and Dulin |title=Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II |page=142}} During this attack, U-105 sank the merchant ship Harmodius,{{sfn|Rohwer|1999|p=45}} on 8 March.{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=498}} Collectively, the two U-boats sank a total of 28,148 tons. U105 then stalked Convoy SL-68, sinking Medjerda

{{sfn|Rohwer|1999|p=46}} on 18 March,{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=504}} Mandalika on 19 March

{{sfn|Rohwer|1999|p=46}} and Clan Ogilvy,{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=493}} Benwyvis{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=488}} and Jhelum,

{{sfn|Rohwer|1999|p=47}} all on the 21st. U-105 went on to score Nazi Germany's first kill off the coast of South America when she sank Ena de Larrinaga{{sfn|Rohwer|1999|p=48}} on 5 April 1941.{{Cite book |last=Carey |title=Galloping Ghosts of the Brazilian Coast |page=6}}{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=496}} Later during the patrol she sank Oakdene, part of Convoy OG-59. On 6 May, Benvrackie,{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=488}} part of Convoy OB 312; on the 13th,{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=488}} Benvenue{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=488}} part of Convoy OB 314 and on the 15th,{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=488}} Rodney Star on 16 May and Scottish Monarch on 1 June

{{sfn|Rohwer|1999|p=54}}{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=510}} as part of Convoy OB 319. This was the second most successful U-boat patrol of the entire Second World War, with 12 ships sunk for a total of {{GRT|71,450|link=off}}.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/men/schewe.htm |title=Korvettenkapitän Georg Schewe |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=5 July 2011}} On 5 May 1941, the 105mm deck gun exploded, wounding six crew members. U-105 returned to Lorient on 13 June,{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_3705.html |title=U-boat patrols: Patrol info for U-105 (Second patrol) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=4 July 2011}} and remained there until 3 August, when she departed on her third war patrol.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_3706.html |title=U-boat patrols: Patrol info for U-105 (Third patrol) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=4 July 2011}}

On 5 August she was assigned to wolfpack 'Hammer' and remained with it until it was disbanded on 12 August,{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/ops/wolfpacks/213.html |title=Wolfpack Hammer |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=6 August 2011}} when she was reassigned to wolfpack 'Grönland', with which she remained until its disbanding on 27 August.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/ops/wolfpacks/208.html |title=Wolfpack Grönland |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=6 August 2011}} She was then assigned to wolfpack 'Margrave',{{sfn|Williamson|2005|p=210}} and sank the Panamanian merchant ship Montana,

{{sfn|Rohwer|1999|p=65}} part of Convoy SC 42, on 11 September.{{sfn|Jordan|2006|p=449}} She returned to Lorient nine days later.

U-105 left Lorient on her fourth patrol on 8 November 1941 and spent 36 days in the North Atlantic. On 14 November she was assigned to wolfpack 'Steuben' and remained with it until 2 December.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/ops/wolfpacks/19.html |title=Wolfpack Steuben |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=6 August 2011}} Having sunk no ships during the patrol, she returned to Lorient on 13 December 1941.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_3707.html |title=U-boat patrols: Patrol info for U-105 (Fourth patrol) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=4 July 2011}} Georg Schewe left the boat shortly after this patrol, and was replaced as commander by Heinrich Schuch.

=1942=

On 25 January 1942 U-105 left Lorient on her fifth patrol. On 31 January she sank the British warship {{HMS|Culver|Y87|6}}, part of Convoy SL 98,{{sfn|Rohwer|1999|p=76}} south-west of Ireland,{{Cite web |url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-16CGC-Culver.htm |title=HMS CULVER (Y 87) - ex-US Coast Guard Cutter |last=Geoffrey B. Mason |website=Service histories of Royal Navy warships in World War 2 |publisher=Naval-history.net |access-date=5 August 2011}} and, on 5 February 1942, she rescued seven men from a crashed German Dornier Do 24 350 miles off the coast of France. U-105 returned to Lorient on 8 February.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_3708.html |title=U-boat patrols: Patrol info for U-105 (Fifth patrol) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=5 July 2011}} Seventeen days later, on 25 February, U-105 left Lorient. Between 25 and 27 March, she sank the British merchant ship Narragansett and the Norwegian merchant ship Svenør off the east coast of the United States. U-105 returned to Lorient on 15 April after spending 50 days in the North Atlantic,{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_3709.html |title=U-boat patrols: Patrol info for U-105 (Sixth patrol) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=5 July 2011}} and left on another patrol on 7 June. While crossing the Bay of Biscay, she was attacked by an Australian Short Sunderland aircraft from No. 10 Squadron RAAF. U-105 sought shelter in Ferrol, Spain{{Cite book |last=Lake |title=Sunderland Squadrons of World War 2 |page=32}} and did not leave until 28 June, when she departed for Lorient, which she reached on the 30th. The attack apparently caused serious damage, as she did not sail again until 23 November.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_3710.html |title=U-boat patrols: Patrol info for U-105 (Seventh patrol) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=5 July 2011}} During this period, Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Adolf Schweichel was put in command of the boat, but did not undertake any patrols{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/men/commanders/1178.html |title=Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Adolf Schweichel |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=30 August 2011}} and was replaced by Oberleutnant zur See Jürgen Nissen, under whose command U-105 left Lorient.

While patrolling the North Atlantic she succeeded in sinking three British merchant ships; Orfor

{{sfn|Rohwer|1999|p=141}} on 14 December 1942, C.S. Flight on 12 January 1943, and British Vigilance, part of Convoy TM 1, on 24 January, as well as the American freighter{{Cite book |last=Dickson |title=World War Two Almanac |page=158}} Cape Decision on the 27th.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_3712.html |title=U-boat patrols: Patrol info for U-105 (Eighth patrol) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=6 July 2011}} U-105 returned to Lorient on 14 February, and remained there until 16 March. During this patrol, (on 1 April), the boat's commander, Jürgen Nissen, was promoted to Kapitänleutnant.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/men/commanders/884.html |title=Kapitänleutnant Jürgen Nissen |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=29 August 2011}} On 15 May 1943 U-105 sank the Greek merchant ship Maroussio Logothetis

{{sfn|Rohwer|1999|p=167}} 250 miles southwest of Freetown.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/2926.html |title=Maroussio Logothetis (Greek Steam merchant) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=6 July 2011}} On 2 June 1943, while passing close to Dakar, U-105 was attacked and sunk by the one and only Potez-CAMS 141 flying boat "Antarés" from Free French Squadron 141. All 53 crew members were killed.{{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_3713.html |title=Patrol info for U-105 (Ninth patrol) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=6 July 2011}}{{sfn|Blair|1998|page=207}}

Summary of raiding history

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
DateShipNationalityTonnageMerchant ship tonnages are in gross register tons. Military vessels are listed by tons displacement.Fate
align="right"|9 January 1941

|align="left" |Bassano

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|4,843

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|26 January 1941

|align="left" |Lurigethan

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|3,564

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|8 March 1941

|align="left" |Harmodius

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|5,229

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|18 March 1941

|align="left" |Medjerda

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|4,380

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|19 March 1941

|align="left" |Mandalika

|align="left" |{{flag|Netherlands}}

|align="right"|7,750

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|21 March 1941

|align="left" |Benwyvis

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|5,920

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|21 March 1941

|align="left" |Clan Ogilvy

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|5,802

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|21 March 1941

|align="left" |Jhelum

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|4,038

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|5 April 1941

|align="left" |Ena de Larringa

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|5,200

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|6 May 1941

|align="left" |Oakdene

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|4,255

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|13 May 1941

|align="left" |Benyrackie

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|6,434

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|15 May 1941

|align="left" |Benvenue

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|5,920

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|16 May 1941

|align="left" |Rodney Star

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|11,803

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|1 June 1941

|align="left" |Scottish Monarch

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|4,719

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|11 September 1941

|align="left" |Montana

|align="left" |{{flag|Panama}}

|align="right"|1,549

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|31 January 1942

|align="left" |HMS Culver

|align="left" |{{navy|United Kingdom}}

|align="right"|1,546

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|25 March 1942

|align="left" |Narrangansett

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|10,389

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|27 March 1942

|align="left" |Svenør

|align="left" |{{flag|Norway}}

|align="right"|7,616

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|14 December 1942

|align="left" |Orfor

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|6,578

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|12 January 1943

|align="left" |C.S. Flight

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|67

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|24 January 1943

|align="left" |British Vigilance

|align="left" |{{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|align="right"|8,093

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|27 January 1943

|align="left" |Cape Decision

|align="left" |{{flag|United States|1912}}

|align="right"|5,106

|align="left" |Sunk

align="right"|15 May 1943

|align="left" |Marusso Logothetis

|align="left" |{{flag|Greece}}

|align="right"|4,669

|align="left" |Sunk

References

=Notes=

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=Citations=

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External links

  • {{Cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/u105.htm |title=The Type IXB boat U-105 |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net |access-date=3 July 2011}}
  • {{Cite web |url=http://www.u-boot-archiv.de/dieboote/u0105.html |title=U 105 |last=Hofmann |first=Markus |website=Deutsche U-Boote 1935-1945 - u-boot-archiv.de |language=German |access-date=30 January 2015}}

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