Qualla: German submarine U-516 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-516 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/x/german-submarine-u-516-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: German submarine U-516 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-516 German submarine U-516: Introduction https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-516/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. Sixteen ships, in six patrols, across half the world. U-516 was one of the rare killers among the boats that died off Donegal - a Type IXC long-range submarine that took her war to South Africa, Namibia, the Caribbean, and the cold Atlantic, and sent merchant seamen to the bottom from East London to Aruba. The Colombian sailing ship Ruby. The American tanker Elizabeth Kellogg. The Esso Harrisburg. Names of ships, names of men. By January 1946 her own war was over and she lay broken on the Atlantic seabed northwest of Ireland, alongside the boats that had killed less.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/x/german-submarine-u-516-wp/gccx-german-submarine-u-516-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full German submarine U-516: Hamburg to the Tropics https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-516/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. Deutsche Werft at Hamburg laid down U-516 on 12 May 1941 as yard number 312. She was a Type IXC - the long-range ocean variant that the Kriegsmarine sent to hunt where the Type VIIs could not reach. Korvettenkapitan Gerhard Wiebe commissioned her on 21 February 1942 and spent six...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/x/german-submarine-u-516-wp/gccx-german-submarine-u-516-hamburg-to-the-tropics.mp3 0:06 2 full German submarine U-516: South Africa, the Caribbean https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-516/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. Her second patrol took her to South African waters, where she sank three ships near East London and a fourth off southern Namibia - merchantmen plying the long route from the Cape around to Britain or the Mediterranean. Her third sortie ranged between South America and the Cape V...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/x/german-submarine-u-516-wp/gccx-german-submarine-u-516-south-africa-the-caribbean.mp3 0:06 3 full German submarine U-516: Esso Harrisburg https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-516/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. Her fifth patrol opened with the sinking of the American tanker Esso Harrisburg 200 nautical miles northwest of Aruba. Tankers were the prize targets for U-boats: they carried the fuel that ran the Allied war effort, and they burned spectacularly when hit. The Esso Harrisburg's c...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/x/german-submarine-u-516-wp/gccx-german-submarine-u-516-esso-harrisburg.mp3 0:06 4 full German submarine U-516: The Last Patrol https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-516/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. She moved from Kiel to Horten Naval Base in occupied Norway, then to Kristiansand, and left the Norwegian port on her sixth and final patrol on 5 April 1945 - five weeks before the German surrender. She returned to Loch Eriboll in Scotland on 14 May, the white flag flying. The Ro...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/x/german-submarine-u-516-wp/gccx-german-submarine-u-516-the-last-patrol.mp3 0:06 5 full German submarine U-516: Sunk, 2 January 1946 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-516/ Photo credit Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain. On 2 January 1946 the Royal Navy hauled U-516 out of Lisahally for the last time and sent her down in deep water northwest of Ireland - eight months after the war ended and one of the later Deadlight sinkings. She lies today at approximately 56.10 degrees north, 9.00 degrees west...

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