SS Sneland I
History Name Sneland I Owner
Stange & Dreyer GmbH (1922-1925)
Richard Amlie & Sverre Amlie (1925-1945)
Port of registry Builder Nüscke & Co., Stettin-Grabow Completed September 1922 Identification Fate Torpedoed and sunk by U-2336 General characteristics Type Cargo ship Tonnage 1,791 GRT Length 82 m Beam 13 m Depth 5 m Propulsion Screw propeller Crew 29
Sneland I Norwegian for “snowland one”) was a 1,791 GRT cargo ship which was built by Nüscke & Co. shipyard at Stettin-Grabow (then Germany ) in 1922. She was the last merchant ship to be torpedoed by Germany in the Second World War , on 7 May 1945, one day before German surrender .[ 1]
History
The ship was built for the German shipping line Stange & Dreyer GmbH in 1922 and got the name Ingeborg Norwegian shipping company Richard Amlie & Sverre Amlie (Amlie & Amlie) in Haugesund , and renamed Sneland I .
On 6 May 1945 the ship was a member of Convoy EN 491, which departed Hull bound for Belfast via Methil .[ 2] U-2336 Sneland I and Avondale Park U-boat during the Second World War. The sinking, at about 22:45 on 7 May 1945, was in the last hours of the Second World War in Europe, with the official surrender taking place at 23:01 on 8 May 1945.[ 3]
Sneland I sank at 56°10′N 02°31′W / 56.167°N 2.517°W / 56.167; -2.517 U-2336 did not receive the signal.[ 4]
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^ Data Retrieved 30 April 2018.^ Voyage record Retrieved 30 April 2018.^ Crew list Retrieved 30 April 2018.^ Eberhard Rössler: U-Boottyp XXIII. 2nd extended edition, Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-7637-6236-1 , pp. 109–112, (German).
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in May 1945
Shipwrecks
1 May: Argo TA 43 U-3006 U-3009 2 May: Admiral Hipper USS Thornton , U-8 U-14 U-60 U-61 U-62 U-71 U-72 U-120 U-121 U-137 U-139 U-140 U-141 U-142 U-146 U-148 U-151 U-152 U-316 U-552 U-554 U-612 U-717 U-929 U-1007 U-1308 U-2327 U-2359 U-2510 U-2526 U-2527 U-2528 U-2531 U-3002 U-3016 U-3018 U-3019 U-3020 U-3021 U-3504 U-3516 U-3517 U-3521 U-3522 3 May: Arcona Cap Arcona Deutschland Emden USS Lagarto , USS Little , USS LSM(R)-195 , Medusa Nordland Schlesien TA22 Thielbek UA UB UD-1 UD-2 UD-3 UD-4 U-48 U-52 U-57 U-58 U-59 U-101 U-328 U-339 U-428 U-446 U-475 U-560 U-704 U-708 U-747 U-748 U-795 U-822 U-828 U-876 U-903 U-922 U-924 U-958 U-1166 U-1170 U-1192 U-1196 U-1201 U-1205 U-1210 U-1227 U-1275 U-2330 U-2332 U-2355 U-2371 U-2501 U-2503 U-2504 U-2508 U-2512 U-2519 U-2520 U-2521 U-2524 U-2533 U-2534 U-2535 U-2536 U-2539 U-2543 U-2545 U-2546 U-2548 U-2552 U-3001 U-3005 U-3010 U-3011 U-3012 U-3013 U-3014 U-3023 U-3024 U-3025 U-3026 U-3027 U-3028 U-3029 U-3031 U-3032 U-3037 U-3038 U-3039 U-3040 U-3507 U-3509 U-3511 U-3513 U-3518 U-3525 U-3530 U-4705 U-4712 Z43 4 May: USS LSM(R)-190 , USS LSM(R)-194 , USS Luce , USS Morrison , Orion USS PGM-17 , U-30 U-46 U-267 U-393 U-711 U-721 U-792 U-793 U-904 U-1132 U-1161 U-1168 U-1303 U-1304 U-2338 U-2540 U-3033 U-3034 U-4709 U-4711 5 May: T36 U-17 U-38 U-236 U-290 U-349 U-351 U-370 U-397 U-534 U-579 U-733 U-746 U-750 U-794 U-827 U-999 U-1008 U-1016 U-1025 U-1056 U-1162 U-1193 U-1204 U-1207 U-1223 U-1234 U-1306 U-1405 U-2333 U-2339 U-2343 U-2346 U-2347 U-2349 U-2352 U-2357 U-2358 U-2360 U-2362 U-2364 U-2366 U-2367 U-2368 U-2369 U-2507 U-2517 U-2522 U-2525 U-2541 U-2544 U-2551 U-3015 U-3022 U-3044 U-3501 U-3510 U-3524 U-3526 U-3527 U-3528 U-3529 U-4701 U-4702 U-4703 U-4704 U-4707 U-4710 6 May: U-853 U-881 U-3523 7 May: Avondale Park Sneland I U-1407 8 May: U-37 U-320 U-382 U-2365 U-2538 U-3030 U-3503 16 May: Haguro Hatsutaka U-287 18 May: USS Longshaw 20 May: U-963 24 May: HM Motor Gun Boat 2007 , U-979 25 May: USS Bates , USS LSM-135 28 May: USS Drexler 29 May: Tenryo Maru 31 May: I-361 Uzbekistan Other incidents
