U-412

Type

VIIC

 
Ordered30 Oct 1939
Laid down 7 Mar 1941 Danziger Werft AG, Danzig (werk 113)
Launched15 Dec 1941
Commissioned29 Apr 1942Oblt. Walter Jahrmährker
Commanders
29 Apr 1942 - 22 Oct 1942  Kptlt. Walther Jahrmärker
Career1 patrol 29 Apr 1942 - 1 Oct 1942  8. Flottille (training)
1 Oct 1942 - 22 Oct 1942  9. Flottille (front boat)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Sunk 22 Oct, 1942 north-east of the Faeroes, in position 63.55N, 00.24E, by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft (Sqdn. 179/B). 47 dead (all hands lost).

View the 1 war patrol

Men lost from the boat

8 Jul 1942
One of U-412´s WO´s was lost overboard during training in the Baltic Sea. [Leutnant zur See Hermann Förster]

  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.