U-1007
Type | VIIC/41 | |||||||||||
| Ordered | 23 Mar, 1942 | |||||||||||
| Laid down | 15 Feb, 1943 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 207) | ||||||||||
| Launched | 8 Dec, 1943 | |||||||||||
| Commissioned | 18 Jan, 1944 | Kptlt. Hans Hornkohl | ||||||||||
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| Career | 1 patrol | 18 Jan, 1944 - 31 May, 1944 31. Flottille (training) 1 Jun, 1944 - 31 Jul, 1944 1. Flottille (front boat) 1 Aug, 1944 - 28 Feb, 1945 24. Flottille (training) 1 Mar, 1945 - 2 May, 1945 31. Flottille (training) | ||||||||||
| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | |||||||||||
| Fate | Scuttled on 2 May, 1945 near Lübeck in position 53.54N, 10.51E, after damages by rockets from 4 British Typhoon aircraft (2nd Tactical Air Force, Sqdn 245). 2 dead, unknown number of survivors. | |||||||||||
U-1007 was strafed and attacked with rockets by four Typhoon aircraft (RAF Sqdn 245, pilots F/Lt F.S. Murphy, F/O F.J. Pearson, W/O K.D. Woddan and F/Sgt C.M. Brocklehurst) in the Trave River north of Lübeck. One man was killed and another later died of wounds in a hospital. The badly damaged boat was beached and scuttled. In May 1946 the wreck was raised and broken up.
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-1007 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
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Books dealing with this subject include: German U-Boat Losses During World War II, Niestle, Axel, 1998 U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1, Wynn, Kenneth, 1998 U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2, Wynn, Kenneth, 1998 |