From Wikipedia.
This was the German ship that is now given credit for sinking the USS Eagle 56.
Was a Type IXC/40 U-boat. Her keel was laid down on 21 August 1942 and commissioned on 25 June 1943. She saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic, conducting three war patrols, sinking two Allied ships.
On her final patrol she had been sent to harass Allied ships along the United States coast. She destroyed the USS Eagle 56 near Portland near Portland, Maine, and just days before the German surrender torpedoed and sank the collier Black Point during the Battle of Point Judith.
Then, the day before the surrender, American warships located the U-583 and sank her 7 nautical miles east of Block Island, Rhode Island, resulting in in the loss of her whole crew of 48.
Today the wreck is a popular deep sea diving spot in 121 feet of water.
--GreGen
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