Type | VIIC | |||||||||
| Ordered | 20 Jan 1941 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 3 Oct 1941 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 611) | ||||||||
| Launched | 24 Jun 1942 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 13 Aug 1942 | Oblt. Heinz Eckelmann | ||||||||
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| Career 1 patrol |
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| Successes | 2 ships damaged, total tonnage 14,894 GRT | |||||||||
| Fate | Left Kiel, Germany on 16 March, 1943. Sunk 5 April, 1943 in the North Atlantic south-west of Iceland, in position 58.20N, 31.52W, by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft (Sqdn. 120/N). 47 dead (all hands lost). (FDS/NHB, March 1985). | |||||||||
Previously recorded fate
Wolfpack operations
U-635 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Löwenherz (1 Apr 1943 - 5 Apr 1943)
Men lost from the boat
15 Feb 1943
A man from U-635 took his own life in Hamburg. [Maschinengefreiter Werner Grande]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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