Offshore, Buxton, North Carolina. County/parish: Dare.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 12, 2015. NRIS 15000806.
Part of World War II Shipwrecks along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico MPS (NRIS 64501184).
1 contributing structure.
German submarine U-701 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that served in the North Atlantic during World War II. It was launched on 16 April 1941 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Horst Degen, with a crew of 43.
In three operational patrols U-701 sank five ships, of 25,390 gross register tons (GRT) and damaged four others for 37,093 GRT. She also sank four auxiliary warships and damaged a destroyer.
She was sunk in an air attack on 7 July 1942 and rests at a depth of 115 feet (35 m) at 35°14.330′N 75°06.690′W.
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