U 513
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513 was a German uboat serving in the Kriegsmarine. She
was a class IXC uboat and was built at Deutche Werft
AG in Hamburg and launched 29.October 1941. She was put in
4.Flotille as a training boat in January 1942, and in
September the same year as a front boat in 10.Flotille.
She was put under command of Kapitänleutnant Friedrich
Guggenberger 15.May 1943. She sunk six ships and damaged
another two in her career and was herself sunk by an
American airplane outside Brasil 19.July 1943. The wreck
was found in 2011 outside Sao Francisco do Sul on a depth
of 130 meter.
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