Unterseeboot 74 (U-74) has been the designation of two submarines of the German Navies. USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ...

World War I

During World War I, U-74 was launched on 10 August 1915, and commissioned into the Kaiserliche Marine on 24 November 1915. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Kaiserliche Marine or Imperial Navy was the German Navy created by the formation of the German Empire and existed between 1871 and 1919; it grew out of the Prussian Navy and the Norddeutsche Bundesmarine. ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

World War II

The second U-74 was a Type VIIB submarine of the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down 5 November 1939, by Bremer Vulkan of Bremen-Vegesack, Germany. She was commissioned 31 October 1940, with Kapitänleutnant Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat in command. Kentrat commanded her until March 1942, when he was relieved by Oberleutnant zur See Karl Friederich, who remained in command until the U-boat's loss. Type VII U-boats were the workhorses of the German World War II U-boot-waffe, and appeared in several sub-types. ... USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ... The Kriegsmarine or War Navy was the name of the German Navy between 1935 and 1945, during the Nazi reign. ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The U-74 conducted eight patrols, sinking five ships totalling 25,619 tons and damaging two others totalling 11,499 tons.

On 24 May 1941, the Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood, and heavily damaged the accompanying battleship HMS Prince of Wales, beginning a three-day battle that would involve nearly a hundred ships. May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bismarck was a battleship of Nazi Germany during World War II named after Otto von Bismarck, famous for sinking HMS Hood in 1941 and for her subsequent pursuit and sinking. ... The USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ... The German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen fought as part of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was named after Prince Eugene of Savoy (Prinz Eugen in German). ... HMS Invincible, one of Britains first battlecruisers Battlecruisers (short for battleship-cruisers) were large warships of the early 20th century. ... HMS Hood was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy. ... This article is about a battleship as a type of warship. ... HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at Birkenhead, England. ...

That concentration of ships was a very attractive set of targets, and Kapitänleutnant Kentrat was ordered to attack the British forces in this area. In the evening U-74 dived in order to listen for contact and detected another U-boat. Kentrat surfaced and a hundred meters away another U-boat appeared—U-556, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Wohlfarth. U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ... U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ... Unterseeboot 556 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the Kriegsmarine. ...

Earlier, Flottenchef Admiral Lütjens requested that Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote (Commander-in-Chief for Submarines, Karl Dönitz) to provide a U-boat to recover Bismarck's War Diary. BdU had given the order to Wohlfarth, but U-556 was both out of torpedoes and very low on fuel. Using a megaphone, Wohlfarth now passed the order on to Kentrat. Kentrat accepted and proceeded toward Bismarck's last known location. Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz. ... U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ... Unterseeboot 556 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the Kriegsmarine. ...

By dawn on 27 May, Bismarck was crippled and under fire from the battleships HMS Rodney and HMS King George V and the cruisers HMS Norfolk and HMS Dorsetshire. It was clear to her crew that she would not survive. May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... This article is about a battleship as a type of warship. ... HMS Rodney was a Nelson-class battleship of the Royal Navy. ... The second HMS King George V was the name ship of her class of battleships. ... The USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ... A long absence of a Norfolk in the Royal Navy was finally ended in the commissioning of County-class heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk (78), which displaced 10,035 tons. ... HMS Dorsetshire (pennant number 40) was a heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the English county (now called Dorset). ...

At 10:36 U-74 heard sinking sounds but could not determine whether it was Bismarck or a British ship. They came to periscope depth and saw battleships and cruisers directly in front of him. He tried to maneuver into an attack position, but the weather was too bad and the seas too high to remain on periscope depth or to shoot a torpedo. Wreckage and yellow life-vests were visible. This article is about a battleship as a type of warship. ... The USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ...

After the British ships left, Kentrat surfaced amid debris and dead bodies. The sounds they heard that morning was the scuttling of Bismarck. They searched but they could find no one alive until that evening when they rescued a raft carrying three sailors, Georg Herzog, Otto Höntzsch, and Herbert Manthey.

U-74 searched another day but found no one else alive and was ordered to return to Lorient. On the return trip, the three survivors recovered from their shock and gave the first statements of the end of Bismarck. Lorient is a commune and a seaport of Brittany, France, in the Morbihan département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ...

On 1941-09-19, U-74 sank the corvette HMCS Levis. 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ...

U-74 did not suffer any casualties to her crew during her career until 2 May 1942, when she was sunk with all hands (47 men) east of Cartagena by depth charges from a British Catalina of Squadron 202/C, and from the destroyers HMS Wishart and HMS Wrestler. May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other places of the same name, see Cartagena Cartagena is a seaport in southeast Spain on the Mediterranean Sea, in the autonomous community of Murcia. ... The PBY Catalina was the definitive air-sea rescue aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s. ... This article is about the warship. ...

See Also: List of U-boats Unterseeboot 2 (1906) (1935) Unterseeboot 4 Unterseeboot 19 Unterseeboot 20 (1912) (1936) Unterseeboot 27 Unterseeboot 28 Unterseeboot 32 Unterseeboot 47 (1938) Unterseeboot 74 Unterseeboot 81 Unterseeboot 96 Unterseeboot 110 Unterseeboot 123 (1918) (1940) Unterseeboot 155 Unterseeboot 166 Unterseeboot 190 Unterseeboot 234 Unterseeboot 238 Unterseeboot 413 (1942) Unterseeboot 429 Unterseeboot 459...