Nummer: 18413c


Area : Western Area
Sea area : English Channel
Nationality of U-boat : German
U-boat : KU Neger
Commander : unknown
Used weapon(s) : Torpedo(es)
Date of sinking : 18.08.1944
Nationality of target : British
Actual type of target : Miscellaneous Auxiliary
Name of target : Fratton
Year of launch : 1925
Actual tonnage : 757 BRT
Actual result : sunk
Position of target : off Normandy
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. - Paul Kemp doesn't believe, that the training ship HMS "Fratton", which laid at anchor when being sunk by an underwater explosion on August 18th, was attacked by a human torpedo so late after departure.
related attacks : Angriff 1
Angriff 2


updated on: 15.02.2017
Remark: ANM
Changes: 1) Whitley p.125
2) Lloyd's War Losses, p.1772
3) Paul Kemp, p.199