L'Unterseeboot 717 ou U-717 est un sous-marin allemand (U-Boot) de type VIIC utilisé par la Kriegsmarine pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le sous-marin fut commandé le 10 avril 1941 à Hambourg (H. C. Stülcken Sohn), sa quille fut posée le 24 avril 1942, il fut lancé le 20 février 1943 et mis en service le 19 mai 1943 de l'Oberleutnant zur See Siegfried von Rothkirch und Panthen.
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German submarine U-717 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 24 April 1942 at the H. C. Stülcken Sohn yard at Hamburg, launched on 20 February 1943, and commissioned on 19 May 1943 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Siegfried von Rothkirch und Panthen. Attached to 5th U-boat Flotilla based at Kiel, U-717 completed her training period on 31 July 1944 and was assigned to front-line service.
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The Naval Academy Mürwik is the main training establishment for all German Navy officers and in 1910 replaced the German Imperial Naval Academy in Kiel.
It is located at Mürwik which is a part of Germany's northernmost city, Flensburg. Built on a small hill directly by the coast, it overlooks the Flensburg Firth.
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Mürwik is a community of Flensburg in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Situated on the east side of the Flensburg Firth, it is on the Angeln peninsula. Mürwik is the location of the Naval Academy at Mürwik, which is the main academy that trains German Navy officers. Nazi Germany's final government, the Flensburg government, was located in Mürwik.
Mürwik is also known for the sail training ship Gorch Fock of the Naval Academy Mürwik and for the database of traffic violators of Germany.
Some of the most affluent areas in Flensburg are located in Mürwik.
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Ansgar Church is an evangelical lutheran church in northern Flensburg, Germany. Its congregation is the largest within the Danish Church in Southern Schleswig.
The church is named after Saint Ansgar.
L'U-717 n'endommagea ou ne coula aucun navire au cours des 5 patrouilles (52 jours en mer) qu'il effectua. Il fut sabordé en mai 1945 à Flensburg puis démoli.