Seamen of a German submarine watch the sinking of a merchant ship they just torpedoed.


Sinking merchant ship

German submarine U-362 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. 
The U-boat sailed from Hammerfest, Norway on 2 August 1944, on her fifth and final patrol and headed east across the Barents Sea, north of Russia. On 5 September 1944 in the Kara Sea, she was sunk by depth charges from the Soviet minesweeper T-116.  All 51 of the crew were lost

German sub U-362

The U-30 in the port of Lorient, Brittany, north-western France, after the sixth combat patrol.
 German submarine U-30 was a Type VIIA U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that served during World War II. She mistakenly sank the British passenger liner SS Athenia, the first ship sunk in World War II, on 3 September 1939. She was retired from front-line service in September 1940, after undertaking eight war patrols, having sunk 17 vessels and damaging two others.  
