List of all U-boats

U-676

Type

VIIC

 
Ordered5 Jun 1941
Laid down13 Jun 1942 Howaldtswerke Hamburg AG, Hamburg (werk 825)
Launched6 Jul 1943
Commissioned4 Aug 1943Oblt. Werner Sass
Commanders
4 Aug 1943 - 19 Feb 1945  Kptlt. Werner Sass
Career
2 patrols
4 Aug 1943-31 Aug 1944  5. Flottille (training)
1 Sep 1944-15 Feb 1945  8. Flottille (front boat)
16 Feb 1945-19 Feb 1945  4. Flottille (front boat)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Sunk after 12 Feb, 1945 in the Gulf of Finland, position unknown, by a USSR mine. 57 dead (all hands lost).

View the 2 war patrols

Attacks on this boat

5 Oct 1944

The boat claimed shot down near Ösel in the Baltic two Soviet planes (one Il-2 and one Pe-2). The U-boat was used as convoy Flak escort at this time.

1 recorded attack on this boat.

Men lost from U-boats

Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-676 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.



Hitler's U-boat War
Blair, Clay


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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.
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.