U-258
Type | VIIC | |||||||||
| Ordered | 23 Dec 1939 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 20 Mar 1941 | Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft, Bremen-Vegesack (werk 23) | ||||||||
| Launched | 13 Dec 1941 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 4 Feb 1942 | Oblt. Wilhelm von Mässenhausen | ||||||||
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| Career 4 patrols |
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| Successes | 1 ship sunk for a total of 6,198 GRT | |||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 20 May, 1943 in the North Atlantic, in position 55.18N, 27.49W, by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft (Sqdn. 120/P). 49 dead (all hands lost). | |||||||||
Wolfpack operations
U-258 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Pfeil (12 Sep 1942 - 22 Sep 1942)
Blitz (22 Sep 1942 - 26 Sep 1942)
Tiger (26 Sep 1942 - 30 Sep 1942)
Wotan (5 Oct 1942 - 17 Oct 1942)
Delphin (23 Jan 1943 - 9 Feb 1943)
Rochen (9 Feb 1943 - 20 Feb 1943)
Adler (11 Apr 1943 - 13 Apr 1943)
Meise (13 Apr 1943 - 27 Apr 1943)
Star (27 Apr 1943 - 4 May 1943)
Inn (11 May 1943 - 15 May 1943)
Donau 1 (15 May 1943 - 20 May 1943)
Men lost from the boat
22 Sep 1942
The navigator was lost overboard from U-258. [Obersteuermann Heinrich Wittmann]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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