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U-82 was a German Type VIIC submarine of the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down on 15 May 1940 by Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft of Bremen. She was commissioned on 14 May 1941 with Oberleutnant Siegfried Rollmann in command. U-82 conducted three patrols, sinking 8 merchant ships for 51,859 tons and damaging another for 1,190 tons. On its final patrol, it also sank HMS Belmont. On 6 February 1942, U-82 was sunk with all 45 of her crew by depth charges from the sloop HMS Rochester and the corvette HMS Tamarisk.