Type | VIIC | |||||||||
| Ordered | 16 Jan 1940 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 11 Jan 1941 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 574) | ||||||||
| Launched | 2 Oct 1941 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 27 Nov 1941 | Oblt. Gottfried Holtorf | ||||||||
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| Career 4 patrols |
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| Successes | 2 ships sunk, total tonnage 9,295 GRT 1 ship damaged, total tonnage 6,197 GRT | |||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 23 July, 1943 in the South Atlantic near Natal, in position 04.05S, 33.23W, by depth charges from two US Liberator aircraft (VB-107/B-6 sank the boat). 43 dead and 2 survivors. | |||||||||
Wolfpack operations
U-598 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Jaguar (18 Jan 1943 - 31 Jan 1943)
Stürmer (11 Mar 1943 - 20 Mar 1943)
Seeteufel (23 Mar 1943 - 30 Mar 1943)
Meise (11 Apr 1943 - 27 Apr 1943)
Men lost from the boat
5 Aug 1942
While U-598 was refuelling in the Middle Atlantic by U-463 one of its men drowned during maintenance work on the hydroplanes and propellers. [Maschinenmaat Willi Bredereck]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
U-boat Emblems
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