U-488
Type | XIV | |||||
| Ordered | 17 Jul, 1941 | |||||
| Laid down | 3 Jan, 1942 | Germaniawerft, Kiel (werk 557) | ||||
| Launched | 17 Oct, 1942 | |||||
| Commissioned | 1 Feb, 1943 | Ltnt. Erwin Bartke | ||||
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| Career | 3 patrols | 1 Feb, 1943 - 30 Apr, 1943 4. Flottille (training) 1 May, 1943 - 26 Apr, 1944 12. Flottille (front boat) | ||||
| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | |||||
| Fate | Sunk on April 26, 1944 in the mid-Atlantic west of Cape Verde in position 17.54N, 38.05W by depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS Frost, USS Huse, USS Barber and USS Snowden. 64 dead (all hands lost). | |||||
Attacks on this boat
12 Oct, 1943
Two American Avenger aircraft from the escort carrier USS Card, sent to intercept the U-tanker, found the boat and dropped Fido homing torpedoes on her. Claimed sunk, she nonetheless survived unharmed. (Sources: Blair, vol 2, page 431)
1 recorded attacks on this boat.
Men lost from the boat
15 Oct, 1943
A man died of illness on 15 Oct. [Maschinenmaat Karl Bergmann]
25 Nov, 1943
A man fell overboard, he was rescued died of heart failure shortly afterwards. [Matrosenobergefreiter Heinz Heinlein]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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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 USS Frost, Kerrigan, Warren J., 2001 |