in Angola. The incident was reported to British naval authorities, and affidavits taken from the three men. On 2 May 1944 U-852 was attacked and captured after running aground upon a reef at Cape Guardafui, northern Somalia, in the Indian Ocean; the surviving members of her crew were taken prisoner. At the end of the war, in October 1945, five members of her crew were tried as war criminals and convicted. Three (Eck, August Hoffman, 2nd Watch Officer, and Walter Weispfennig, boat's doctor) were executed, and two others, Hans Lenz, Chief Engineer, and Wolfgang Schwender, Pilot, were imprisoned. Gwyn Griffin's best-selling 1967 novel An Operational Necessity was based on the Peleus Incident. References SS Peleus at Uboat.net Clay Blair : Hitler's U-Boat War [Volume 2]: The Hunted 1942–1945 (1998) (2000 UK paperback ed.) External links Submarine atrocities The Peleus affair at u-boat net Ships built on the River Tees Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II Steamships World War II merchant ships of Greece 1928 ships World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean Maritime incidents in March 1944