Submarine U-124

U-124

Country	Germany
Ship Class	Type IX-class Submarine
Builder	Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG
Yard Number	956
Ordered	15 Dec 1937
Laid Down	11 Aug 1939
Launched	9 Mar 1940
Commissioned	11 Jun 1940

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8 Mar 1941

Off Western Africa, German submarines U-105, U-106, and U-124 received sighting reports of Allied convoy SL-67 from surface ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. They searched for the escorting battleship HMS Malaya in failure; instead, U-105 sank British ship Harmodius at 0341 hours and U-124 sank four ships between 0547 and 0608 hours. U-105 received damage from depth charges as she was counterattacked. A total of 62 British sailors were killed; 300 survivors were picked up.

23 Mar 1942

German submarine U-124 sank US tanker Naeco 65 miles southeast of Cape Fear, North Carolina, United States at 1023 hours; 24 were killed, 14 survived.

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