U-177
Type | IXD2 | |||||||||||||
| Ordered | 28 May 1940 | |||||||||||||
| Laid down | 25 Nov 1940 | AG Weser, Bremen (werk 1017) | ||||||||||||
| Launched | 1 Oct 1941 | |||||||||||||
| Commissioned | 14 Mar 1942 | Kptlt. Wilhelm Schulze | ||||||||||||
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| Career 3 patrols |
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| Successes | 14 ships sunk for a total of 87,388 GRT 1 ship damaged for a total of 2,588 GRT | |||||||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 6 Feb, 1944 in the South Atlantic west of Ascension Island, in position 10.35S, 23.15W, by depth charges from a US Liberator aircraft (VB-107/B-3). 50 dead and 15 survivors. | |||||||||||||
Attacks on this boat
23 Sep 1942
At 13.30 hours, the crash-diving boat was bombed by a twin-engined aircraft southeast of Iceland. It was not damaged by the bomb and escaped submerged.
6 Jun 1943
While tracking a convoy off the lower west coast of Africa in heavy fog the boat suddenly found itself right inside the convoy and quickly under deck-gun fire from the convoy ships. A Canadian Catalina aircraft (RCAF Sqdn 413) also arrived and dropped 3 bombs on the boat which narrowly escaped. (Sources: Blair, vol 2, page 301)
2 recorded attacks on this boat.
Men lost from the boat
23 Sep 1942
On 23 Sept at 0605hrs a man was lost overboard from U-177. [Bootsmannmaat Erwin Henning]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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