In June 1944, the German Navy submarine sent to the Gulf of Finland to the east to fight the Red Navy s efforts to enter the zone to the west. By the end of the first three platform type VIIc U- 481, U -748 and U -1193 arrived in Tallinn. The next month, yet arrived , or seven boats U -242 , U -250, U -348 , U- 370, U -475, U- 479 and U -679 . Elokuulla became even three boat U -717, U -745 and U- 1001, thirteen , or U-boats worked Estonia Lahti Lavansaari Gulf of Narva - line and on to the east. Submarine Fleet command post was in Kotka, where Fregattenkapitän Albrecht Brandi was the Commander. Gulf of Finland, due to the small size of only four U-boats operate at the same time a couple of days at a time on patrol . The Gulf of Finland was the oceans trained submarine men diabolical place in densely booby and low water courses. Depth could play in the guarantee is not available , particularly in the Gulf of Vyborg . If the enemy by surprise , was often wiser to remain in the surface to fight, than to go to wait for somebody to dive . Opponent was a 56- ton wooden MO- boats, which were equipped by depth . Battle of Vyborg Bay U -679 approached the Gulf of Vyborg 14.7. , But was detected and had to battle with motor torpedo boats . The ships commander Oblt . Friedrich Breckwoldt afraid that diving in shallow water would be fatal , so he fought to the surface . The Russian Torpedo laukoivat over, when the Finnish coastal battery Ristiniemestä opened fire on the Russian MO -304 boat. Thus, the Russians withdrew , leaving the U-boat alone. The U-boat was the Battle of minor hits and lost three husbands. U -679 s destiny was to Oblt . Eduard Austin under the command of 9 january 1945 in the Baltic Sea , near Tallinn to become the Russian MO -124 submarine to sink a boat pesticides , with all 51 men went to the boat included. U -250 fate U damaged 250Heinäkuun 30 day at 12.42 U -250 attacked the periskooppisyvyydessä 56 -ton submarine ship control MO -105 attack of Primorsk on the north side and fired a torpedo G7e this year. Russian boat was destroyed and seven of the 26 men escaped , but the lure of the site of the explosion came from the other ship , MO -103 . 19:10, the Russian Navy Lieutenant Aleksander Kolenko , boat MO -103 Manager, received the echo of an echo sounder to U- 250 Reviews and dropped five depth charges . U -250 had a light hit and rose to the surface revealing an air bubble , so Kolenko decided to drop another five series. One of the five depth bomb on top of the engine room fire and explosion tore a large hole in the ship , sinking it. Kapitänleutnant Werner -Karl Schmidt, and five other crew members were in the cockpit of the boat , where they were able to escape to the surface at the last moment , where they faced a military prison . The Russians were excited , now they were trapped in a submarine captain and self- venekin rested in shallow water , so the Enigma , and the new secret of acoustic torpedoes had opened out to them soon, if they could just raise the boat up . U -250 increases Some of the survivors . Schmidt keskellä.Nopeasti after the immersion, the Russians sent divers to explore the ship , who stated that the vessel was only 27 meters below the surface and 14 ° tilt , which would greatly facilitate the lifting of the vessel , when a large tear in the vessel päämoottorihuoneen taken into account. Quickly the Russians were able to place two 200-ton air tank to help the shelter of a smoke screen , they started lifting work . The Finns tried to disrupt the artillery and the Germans sent to the scene to interfere with the work of lifting the E- boat to the east, the motor torpedo boat to the east , but the results were non-existent. Concerned because the Germans had to say of acoustic T-5 torpedo find myself ending up in Russian . T-5 torpedoes were also called Zauköning of thumb for bird . In Hear U -250 saw the light of day again and we went to Kronstadt tow yard, where it arrived on 15 September. The first Russian - supplied Werner Karl Schmidt on board because they were afraid of submerged U- boat, hidden traps , etc. Churchills concern U -250 KronstadtissaT -5- torpedo had caused great concern to the English . Churchill wrote to Stalin a letter in which he asked the Soviet Union to hand over a T-5 torpedo . In his letter, he appealed mm . the fact that the convoy ships were hard hit immediately after the appearance of the torpedo . Not only merchant ships , but the escort was gone a short time sinking into 24 pieces or badly damaged. Seven of them on the way up to the beginning of Archangel. The British wanted only way acoustic torpedoes, since it was still a fear that the Japanese would point to that. Stalin replied, several weeks later , the torpedo- examination is impossible, because they are badly damaged in the explosion. The Germans are removed from Vyborg Bay and the Gulf of Finland U -250 after the sinking of the Germans withdrew from the Gulf of Vyborg, Finland and soon exit from the war, they lost their base in Kotka . 20.09.1944 Tallinn loss meant that Germany lost its foothold in the Gulf of Finland considerably. pkymasehist.fi/badewanne.html
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