U-601
Type | VIIC | |||||||||||||
| Ordered | 22 May 1940 | |||||||||||||
| Laid down | 10 Feb 1941 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 577) | ||||||||||||
| Launched | 29 Oct 1941 | |||||||||||||
| Commissioned | 18 Dec 1941 | Oblt. Peter-Ottmar Grau | ||||||||||||
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| Career 10 patrols |
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| Successes | 4 ships sunk for a total of 8,869 GRT | |||||||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 25 Feb, 1944 in the Arctic Ocean north-west of Narvik, Norway, in position 70.26N, 12.40E, by depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft (Sqdn. 210/M). 51 dead (all hands lost). | |||||||||||||
Wolfpack operations
U-601 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Boreas (19 Nov 1942 - 6 Dec 1942)
Wiking (20 Sep 1943 - 3 Oct 1943)
Eisenbart (19 Dec 1943 - 5 Jan 1944)
Isegrim (16 Jan 1944 - 27 Jan 1944)
Werwolf (27 Jan 1944 - 1 Feb 1944)
General notes on this boat
In August 1943 the boat rescued survivors from a Luftwaffe flying boat that had crashed into the sea. She brought them to Narvik, Norway on 28 August.
Men lost from the boat
4 May 1943
The II WO on U-601 was killed in a machine gun misfire.
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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