U-370

Type

VIIC

 
Ordered25 Aug 1941
Laid down21 Nov 1942 Flensburger Schiffsbau-Ges, Flensburg (werk 493)
Launched24 Sep 1943
Commissioned19 Nov 1943Oblt. Karl Nielsen
Commanders
19 Nov 1943 - 5 May 1945  Oblt. Karl Nielsen
Career
12 patrols
19 Nov 1943-31 Jul 1944  4. Flottille (training)
1 Aug 1944-15 Feb 1945  8. Flottille (front boat)
16 Feb 1945-5 May 1945  4. Flottille (training)
Successes2 warships sunk for a total of 832 tons
Fate

Scuttled in Gelting Bay on 5 May, 1945.

See the 2 ships hit by U-370 - View the 12 war patrols

Wreck broken up in 1948.

Men lost from the boat

23 Sep 1944
In the Baltic Sea a man was washed overboard. [Matrosengefreiter Erwin Stiegeler]

  Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -



U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2
Wynn, Kenneth


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Books dealing with this subject include:

German U-Boat Losses During World War II. Niestle, Axel, 1998.
Hitler's U-boat War. Blair, Clay, 1996.
Hitler's U-boat War, Vol II. Blair, Clay, 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.