U-67

Type

IXC

 
Ordered7 Aug 1939
Laid down5 Apr 1940 AG Weser, Bremen (werk 986)
Launched30 Oct 1940
Commissioned22 Jan 1941Kptlt. Heinrich Bleichrodt (Oak Leaves)
Commanders
22 Jan 1941 - 4 Jun 1941  Kptlt. Heinrich Bleichrodt (Knights Cross)
5 Jun 1941 - 2 Jul 1941  Oblt. Günther Pfeffer
3 Jul 1941 - 16 Jul 1943  KrvKpt. Günther Müller-Stöckheim (Knights Cross)
Career
7 patrols
22 Jan 1941-31 Aug 1941  2. Flottille (training)
1 Sep 1941-16 Jul 1943  2. Flottille (front boat)
Successes13 ships sunk for a total of 72,138 GRT
5 ships damaged for a total of 29,726 GRT
Fate

Sunk 16 Jul 1943 in the Sargasso Sea, in position 30.05N, 44.17W, by depth charges from an Avenger aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Core (VC-13). 48 dead and 3 survivors.

See the 18 ships hit by U-67 - View the 7 war patrols

Wolfpack operations

U-67 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
   Seeräuber (14 Dec 1941 - 23 Dec 1941)
   Wohlgemut (12 Mar 1943 - 22 Mar 1943)
   Seeräuber (25 Mar 1943 - 30 Mar 1943)

Attacks on this boat

11 Dec 1941
The boat was attacked by depth charges from the British corvette HMS Bluebell. This attack was thought to have sunk the U-208 but instead slightly damaged the U-67. (Sources: FDS/NHB)

30 Mar 1942
The U-67 was attacked by a British submarine. Its torpedoes missed U-67 by 150 meters.

28 Mar 1943
Wolfpack Seeräuber (Pirate) attacked small convoy RS 3 and during which 3 ships were sunk and 3 U-boats (of 8) seriously damaged. U-67 was hit by aerial depth charges and was seriously damaged. (Sources: Blair, vol 2, page 204)

3 recorded attacks on this boat.

Men lost from the boat

27 Oct 1942
After an explosion during torpedo loading on the U-67 one man was killed. [Matrosenobergefreiter Heinz Hartmann]

  Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -


We have emblem entries for this boat!

You can view the emblems here. (The emblem on the left is not the emblem for this boat).



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.
Torpedoes in the Gulf. Wiggins, Melanie, 1995.
U-Boat Adventures. Wiggins, Melanie, 1999.
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.


There was another U-67 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 15 May 1915 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 4 Aug 1915. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about the U 67 during WWI.