| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Turkish |
| Fate: | Transferred to Turkey in 1945 when she reverted to her original name. |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Denis John Beckley | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Hartley Withers Wilkinson | |
| 1944: | Acting Lieutenant | Percy Clive Stanbury Pritchard (RNR) | MID |
| 1945: | Lieutenant | John Francis Michell |
Ex Burak Reis Seconded by the RN whilst being built for the Turks
| 19-10-1940 | Launched |
| 20-09-1942 | HMS P-614 attacks the German submarine U-408 with torpedoes in the Arctic Ocean. All torpedoes miss. The crew thought they had sunk the target and the skipper (Lt. Beckley) even received a DSO for the sinking. |
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| Unofficial | ||
| Motto | Crack on | |
| Design Notes | A squirrel holding a nut on a blue background | |
| Additional Notes | Because the vessel was technically a foreign-ordered boat temporarily operated under a pennant number (P614), she did not receive an official, standardised Royal Navy badge during her commission. | |
| Displacement | 624 tons standard, 683 tons full load surfaced |
| 856 tons submerged | |
| Length | 210 ft |
| Beam | 22.3 ft |
| Draught | 11.8ft |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft diesel-electric |
| Vickers diesels - 1,200 hp (890 kW) | |
| Electric motors - 780 hp (580 kW) | |
| Speed | 13.7 knots (Surfaced) |
| 8.4 knots (Submerged) | |
| Range | 2,500 nautical miles at 10 knots |
| Complement | 41 |
| Armament | 5 x 21 inch torpedo tubes - 4 bow internal, 1 stern external |
| 9 torpedoes | |
| 1 x 3in gun | |
| 1 x 20mm gun |
| Class: | 1936 - 1958: U Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Tyne) |
| Build Group: | U2 |
| Fate: | |
| The Submarine was sold for scrap in June 1949 and was broken up by JJ King at Rosyth. | |
A first hand account of the German U-boat battles of World War II, by one of the very few surviving commanders.
This is a story of triumph, disaster and eventual survival against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill, daring and incredible luck saw him safely through to the end of the war. His is an epic and chilling description of the fearful havoc wrought by one small U-boat on the Atlantic convoys.
But easy success ebbed away in the face of ever-improving Allied detection and attack techniques. The hunters became the prey, to suffer appalling losses. Of 842 U-boats launched 779 were sunk, 'iron-coffins' to 28,000 men.
Herbert Werner's graphic account of war waged from beneath the sea, of horror and cold, cruel death, is dedicated to the seamen of all nations who died in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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| Unofficial | ||
| Motto | Crack on | |
| Design Notes | A squirrel holding a nut on a blue background | |
| Additional Notes | Because the vessel was technically a foreign-ordered boat temporarily operated under a pennant number (P614), she did not receive an official, standardised Royal Navy badge during her commission. | |
| Displacement | 624 tons standard, 683 tons full load surfaced |
| 856 tons submerged | |
| Length | 210 ft |
| Beam | 22.3 ft |
| Draught | 11.8ft |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft diesel-electric |
| Vickers diesels - 1,200 hp (890 kW) | |
| Electric motors - 780 hp (580 kW) | |
| Speed | 13.7 knots (Surfaced) |
| 8.4 knots (Submerged) | |
| Range | 2,500 nautical miles at 10 knots |
| Complement | 41 |
| Armament | 5 x 21 inch torpedo tubes - 4 bow internal, 1 stern external |
| 9 torpedoes | |
| 1 x 3in gun | |
| 1 x 20mm gun |
| Class: | 1936 - 1958: U Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Tyne) |
| Build Group: | U2 |
| Fate: | |
| The Submarine was sold for scrap in June 1949 and was broken up by JJ King at Rosyth. | |
A first hand account of the German U-boat battles of World War II, by one of the very few surviving commanders.
This is a story of triumph, disaster and eventual survival against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill, daring and incredible luck saw him safely through to the end of the war. His is an epic and chilling description of the fearful havoc wrought by one small U-boat on the Atlantic convoys.
But easy success ebbed away in the face of ever-improving Allied detection and attack techniques. The hunters became the prey, to suffer appalling losses. Of 842 U-boats launched 779 were sunk, 'iron-coffins' to 28,000 men.
Herbert Werner's graphic account of war waged from beneath the sea, of horror and cold, cruel death, is dedicated to the seamen of all nations who died in the Battle of the Atlantic.
13 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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Thankyou for your support.
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