Nummer: 18411a


Area : Western Area
Sea area : English Channel
Nationality of U-boat : German
U-boat : KU Neger
Commander : unknown
Used weapon(s) : Torpedo coup de grâce
Date of sinking : 17.08.1944
Nationality of target : British
Actual type of target : Transport Cargo
Name of target : Iddesleigh
Year of launch : 1942
Actual tonnage : 5205 BRT
Actual result : sunk
Position of target : off Langrune
Footnote : On 16-17 August "Negers" were used for the last time, when 42 of them started out. Only 16 survived their attack and returned to Le Havre, as Villers-sur-Mer had been destroyed from the rolling back German frontier in those days. - "Iddesleigh" had already been torpedoed by a German E-Boat on August 10th, 1944, and laid damaged on strand off Langrune, where she was destroyed by another torpedo hit on August 17th, 1944.
related attacks : Angriff 1
Angriff 2


updated on: 16.02.2017
Remark: ANM
Changes: 1) Whitley p.125
2) Lloyd's War Losses, p.768