Type | VIIC | |||||||||
| Ordered | 5 Jun 1941 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 3 Sep 1942 | Howaldtswerke Hamburg AG, Hamburg (werk 827) | ||||||||
| Launched | 18 Sep 1943 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 25 Oct 1943 | Oblt. Guido Hyronimus | ||||||||
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| Career 1 patrol |
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| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | |||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 7 July, 1944 in the English Channel south-west of Brighton, in position 50.32N, 00.23W, by depth charges from the Canadian destroyers HMCS Ottawa and HMCS Kootenay and the British corvette HMS Statice. 52 dead (all hands lost). | |||||||||
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-678 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
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