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Career 22 May 1941 - 1 Aug 1941 training 1 Aug 1941 - 28 Jan 1944 active service Successes 5 ships sunk, total tonnage 33,511 GRT 1 ship damaged, total tonnage 11,394 GRT 1 ship a total loss, total tonnage 9,788 GRT 1 auxiliary warship a total loss, total tonnage 3,870 GRT Fate Sunk on 28 January 1944 in North Atlantic west of Ireland, in position 52	Moffet 35 and 5 abandoned ship into two lifeboats and three rafts, except for the master who was killed
Of course, now we all know better because we've seen True Detective and the various other good things he's done since somehow pulling his shit together	Unfortunately, 2 of the RN sailors did not make it out of the sinking sub in time and died

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U-505 was duly captured and emergency damage control was performed, allowing the sub to be seaworthy enough to be towed to port in Bermuda, a voyage of 1700 nautical miles.

German submarine U: Before the crew of S-33 receives its assignment, the submarine's executive officer Lieutenant Tyler is unhappy about a recommendation for command of his own submarine being blocked by his commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Dahlgren
‎U: While the film is well made and entirely entertaining, the action is seriously far fetched and unrealistic, and of course fictional
Buy U: You want that for the climactic battle scenes, but in this movie it's like everything is leaking and exploding and popping all the time

A leak in one of the ballast tanks forced U-571 to return to base for repairs	C One person found this helpful
Major Dan is a retired veteran of the United States Marine Corps	In order to avoid losing the ship and all the crew, the American captain has to have all ballast blown and the U-boat makes an uncontrolled rise to the surface

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The stalwart US Navy heroes are not to be denied their prize, and the prize crew takes the U-571 underwater and does battle with the German resupply sub.

October 30, 1942: The Real Story of U: I already mentioned the torpedo near-misses
The Type VIIC U: History Name U-571 Ordered 24 October 1939 Builder , Hamburg Laid down 8 June 1940 Launched 4 April 1941 Commissioned 22 May 1941 Fate Sunk west of , 28 January 1944
German submarine U: The plot cliches--oh, the plot cliches

Worse than the cheapest teen horror flick	This 2000 film is not based on an actual event, but rather a fictional story encompassing things that happened to several U-boats during WWII
U-571 patrolled off the west coast of in July before returning to base on 1 September	The tanker SS Pennsylvania Sun, torpedoed by U-571 on 15 July 1942 was saved and returned to service in 1943 Sadly, U-571 is damaged beyond repair, and must be abandoned by the American prize crew, although all code materials and Enigma machine are recovered

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They watch U-571 as it slips beneath the waves once and for all.

The Type VIIC U: U-571 conducted eleven war patrols, sinking seven ships totalling 47,169 GRT , and damaging one other, which displaced 11,394 tons
German submarine U: However, the submarine has taken severe damage, and so the crew abandons it with the Enigma in their possession
The Type VIIC U: According to Britain's Channel 4, "the captured codebooks provided vital assistance to British cryptographers such as , at the code-breaking facility of , near