N.I.D. Ottawa, 20th July, 1945.
	Report on U-190, surrendered off Newfoundland on 12th May, 1945, being supplementary to the interrogation report issued on 22nd May, 1945.
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	When the previous U-190 report was issued no captured documents were then available.  This supplementary report is based on various logs, notebooks and miscellaneous material since taken from U-190.  There has been no further opportunity to interrogate the crew.
	Early History
	After commissioning, U-190 proceeded to Kiel, where she remained during October 1942 attached to the 4th Flotilla.  On the 6th October she was demagnetized.  At the end of the month she moved into the Western Baltic, and from the 3rd of November to the 15th December exercised in the vicinity of Gotenhafen.  Torpedo trials were carried out from the 10th to 13th November and from the 4th to 13th December.  (There is no available record of her Flotilla or base during this period.)
	First Patrol
	Departed Kiel area 20th Feb. 1943.
	Departed Christiansand (S) 22nd Feb. 1943.
	The relatively short period of this patrol - 36 days - suggests that it was the usual preliminary cruise, and that its main purpose was to transfer the boat to Lorient, where she joined the 2nd Flotilla.
	Second Patrol
	1st May - 19th August, 1943, 111 days.
	Some members of the crew stated at the interrogation that this had been a West African patrol and that they had proceeded as far as the Capetown area before turning back.  THe only two documents recovered which pertain to this cruise are two Action Diagrams (Gefechtskizze), photostats of which are attached.  By the dates (25th May and 15th June) these appear to refer to actions on the Gibraltar convoy run, in which U-190 had taken part, according to earlier reports from the interrogation of survivors of U-607.
	Third Patrol
	7th October, 1943 - 16th January, 1944, 101 days.
	Crew members stated that on this patrol they had operated in the North Atlantic thus lending confirmation to a previous report (Op-16-Z, G/Serial 31 p. 40) that Wintermeyer had joined Group Coronel in December, 1943.
	Fourth Patrol
	In the crew members' Confidential Conduct Books (Führungsbücher), in which sea time in operation against the enemy is recorded, this patrol is listed as dating from the 7th March, 1944 - 20th June, 1944 - 101 days (sic).  This discrepancy may be attributed to the fact that two false starts were made.  In a Diving Log (Tauchtagebuch) the following entries were found:

 

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	7th March, 1944, Departure for Fourth Patrol.  Trimming trial.
	8th March, 1944, Deep diving trial.
	11th March, 1944, Departure for Fourth Patrol and deep diving trial.
	16th March, 1944, Departure for Fourth Patrol and 3rd deep diving trial.
	(This is confirmed from notes for a Victualling report, in which it is stated that victuals were a little short as a result of these false starts, and that certain foods are preferable to others for patrol in torrid waters.)
	From notes of star fixes, a rough sketch of an attack dated 12th May, 1944, and courses noted in a Diesel log, it is apparent that on this patrol the operational area was off Takoradi.
	(N.I.D. note:  There is no record available at N.S.H.Q. of the attack dated 12th May, 1944, which took place in approx. 03.00N 02.00W.  See attached photstats of sketch and course.
	Fifth Patrol
	12th August - 15th September, 1944, 35 days (?).
	According to the log of U-190's watch while in harbour, she remained in Lorient from 21st June to 11th August inclusive.  (For two days, 28-9th June, she lay in Keroman II/10.)  On the 15th September in Flensburg, Maschinen Gefreiter Karl LESZMANN [typo LEHMANN] was drafted to U-190, 33rd Flotilla.  Other documents indicate that U-190 remained in Flensburg till mid-October, at which time she moved to Bremen for overhaul and streamlining alterations.
	In none of the crew's individual Conduct Books was this cruise listed, a fact which would seem to confirm the statements made at the interrogation that this was an evacuation, not an offensive patrol (Feindfahrt).
	Sixth and Final Patrol (Additional information)
	From dated documents, it appears that U-190 arrived in Kiel from Bremen at 1000A/26th January, 1945.  On the 7th February she topped up with fuel. and on the 9th Korvetten Kapitan MOEHLE and Kapititean Leutnant (Ing.) QZUERN [typo SUHREN] came aboard for the final trimming trial, after which she departed for Christiansand (S).  She left the latter port, after a further trial, at 1800A/21st February.
	As noted in the preliminary report, the C.O. had ordered the destruction of all documents pertaining to this patrol.  Some papers were overlooked however:  attached are copies of fuel consumption and mileage tables, and reproductions of parts of U-190's course.
	In the Diving Log for this patrol, which was among the papers recovered, entries had been made on the days on which torpedoes had been fired.  The page for 12th April (when according to prisoner's statements four torpedoes had been fired at a tanker and a freighter) was torn out.  On the 16th April (date of sinking of HMCS ESQUIMALT) the entry "Fired 1 T5" had been erased but was still legible.  Other entries were as follows.
	24th April  Fired 1 T5.
	25th April  Fired 3 Lut.

 

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	There was no entry subsequent to that of the 25th April, suggesting that the remaining 5 torpedoes had been unloaded, rather than fired offensively, as alleged by the C.O. (see preliminary interrogation report, page 2).
	Miscellaneous
	Other U-boat in Bremen with U-190 during November and December, 1944, were U-155, U-170, U-873, U-875 and U-876.
	Bootsmannsmaat Anton WEHLE had done two patrols under Oberleutnant zur See Heinrich GOSEJAKOB on U-713, of the 11th Flotilla (previously of the 8th Flotilla).  Dates of these patrols were:
	6th June - 10th August, 1943
	7th September - 13th November, 1943.
	Maschinen Maat Johann GRIESBERG had done three patrols under Korvetten Kapitaen NEITZEL on U-510.  Dates were:
	7th July - 13th September, 1942
	14th October - 12th December, 1942
	16th January - 16th April, 1943.
	APPENDICES
	1.  Action diagram (Gefechtsskizze) dated 25th May, 1943 photostat.
	2.  Action diagram (Gefechtsskizze) dated 15th June, 1943 photostat.
	3.  Action diagram (Gefechtsskizze) dated 12th May, 1944 photostat.
	4.  U-190's Fourth Patrol - Reconstruction of part of course, photostat.
	5.  U-190's Sixth Patrol - Fuel consumption table, 2 pages.
	6.        "         "               - Report on distances covered, 2 pages.
	7.        "         "               -  Rough plot of course 8th - 11th April, photostat.
	8.  U-190's Sixth Patrol - Reconstruction of part of course, photostat.

Click on the text to see Appendix 4 - U-190's Fourth Patrol - Reconstruction of part of course

Click on the text to see Appendix 7 - U-190's Sixth Patrol - Rough plot of course 8th - 11th April