U-505 is a German Type IXC submarine built for Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. It was captured by the United States Navy on 4 June 1944 and survives as a museum ship in Chicago.

2006年6月12日 · A German submarine became the first enemy vessel captured on the high seas by the U.S. Navy since the War of 1812. Hans Goebeler survived the ordeal aboard the U-boat.

On June 4, 1944, a hunter-killer group based around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) under the command of Captain Daniel V. Gallery, Jr., captured the German submarine U …

Only one German sailor, Gottfried Fischer, perished during the capture of U- 505. The Task Group rescued the remaining 58 crew members from the sea — a far more agreeable fate than most U-boat sailors experienced.

2019年4月4日 · U-505 crewmen climb a jacob's ladder to come aboard USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60), after their rescue from the Atlantic (80-G-49173).

2024年6月25日 · On 4 June 1944, a U.S. Navy hunter-killer group organized around USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) captured the German Type IXC submarine U-505. This was the first time that the U.S. Navy had captured...

2018年2月14日 · This action was the first time the US Navy had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the War of 1812 (in 1815). Fifty-eight prisoners were taken from U-505, three of them wounded (including Lange). U-505's crew was interned at Camp Ruston, near Ruston, Louisiana.

2009年3月24日 · The U-505 ’s commander, Harald Lange, ordered his crew to leave the boat, and though they set scuttle charges and opened a sea strainer to flood the U-505 before abandoning it, a nine-man American boarding party managed to secure the sub and seize it.

U-505 is a German Type IXC U-boat built for service in the Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was captured on 4 June 1944 by United States Navy Task Group 22.3 (TG 22.3).

U-505 was attacked by an aircraft in mid-Atlantic and suffered a small amount of damage. The II WO and a lookout were seriously wounded in a surprise air attack out of low cloud by a Hudson bomber SE of Trinidad. Four depth charges were released and a direct hit was scored, but the explosion also destroyed the aircraft and the five aircrew.