The group was positioned to intercept the fast HX and slow SC convoys from North America, and was co-incident with group Seeteufel, 16 U-boats positioned to attack outbound ON and ONS convoys. It comprised 19 U-boats, mostly from groups Sturmer and Dranger, which had attacked convoys HX 229 and SC 122. The second Seewolf group operated in the North Atlantic in March 1943 against convoys to and from North America. It comprised the following boats:-įive merchant ships were sunk for a total of 20,396 GRT. Seewolf was formed on 2 September, and dissolved two weeks later, on 15 September 1941. On 14 September U-95 and U-561 were bombed by aircraft from Coastal Command and forced to return to base. Due to bad weather, and evasive routing by the British, it had no success against the target convoys, though five independently routed ships were found and sunk on 6 September U-95 sank Trinidad, a neutral vessel en route from Dublin to Lisbon, and on 15 September U-94 sank three ships that had dispersed from ON 14 the previous day. The group comprised 17 U-boats, from the dissolved groups Bosemuller and Kurfurst, that had operated in the same area. The first U-boat group code-named Seewolf operated in the North Atlantic, to intercept Allied convoys to and from Gibraltar, and to and from Sierra Leone in west Africa.
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