Qualla: German submarine U-179 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-179 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/6/h/1/german-submarine-u-179-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: German submarine U-179 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-179 German submarine U-179: Introduction https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-179/ Photo credit Andrewmb, CC BY-SA 4.0. The patrol lasted exactly one month. On September 8, 1942, German submarine U-179 slipped out of Kiel harbor and headed north into the Atlantic, passing between Iceland and the Faroe Islands before turning south for the long run to Cape Town. She carried sixty-one men, twenty-four torpedoes, and enough fuel to cover nearly 13,000 nautical miles on the surface. On October 8, she made her first and only kill. Hours later, British depth charges sent her to the bottom. None of her crew survived.

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/6/h/1/german-submarine-u-179-wp/k6h1-german-submarine-u-179-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full German submarine U-179: Built for Distance https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-179/ Photo credit Andrewmb, CC BY-SA 4.0. U-179 was a Type IXD2, the largest and longest-ranged U-boat class in the Kriegsmarine's arsenal. At nearly 88 meters long with a surface displacement of 1,610 tonnes, she was considerably bigger than the Type VII boats that hunted in the North Atlantic wolf packs. Her design ref...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/6/h/1/german-submarine-u-179-wp/k6h1-german-submarine-u-179-built-for-distance.mp3 0:06 2 full German submarine U-179: South to the Cape https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-179/ Photo credit Andrewmb, CC BY-SA 4.0. By late 1942, the German navy was extending its submarine campaign into the Indian Ocean and the waters around southern Africa, where shipping lanes were less heavily patrolled than in the North Atlantic. U-179's route from Kiel took her through the GIUK Gap, the stretch of open ...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/6/h/1/german-submarine-u-179-wp/k6h1-german-submarine-u-179-south-to-the-cape.mp3 0:06 3 full German submarine U-179: One Kill, One Hour https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-179/ Photo credit Andrewmb, CC BY-SA 4.0. On October 8, 1942, U-179 found a target west-southwest of Cape Town: an unescorted merchant vessel. Sobe attacked and sank her, his boat's only confirmed kill. Of the merchant ship's ninety-nine crewmen, all but one survived the sinking. The survivors even managed to rescue a ca...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/6/h/1/german-submarine-u-179-wp/k6h1-german-submarine-u-179-one-kill-one-hour.mp3 0:06 4 full German submarine U-179: A Memorial in Kiel https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-179/ Photo credit Andrewmb, CC BY-SA 4.0. U-179 lies somewhere on the seabed west-southwest of Cape Town, her exact position known only approximately. The sixty-one men who died aboard her are commemorated at the U-Boat Memorial in Kiel, where a plaque bears the submarine's designation alongside thousands of other German...

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