Type | VIIC | |||||||||||
| Ordered | 25 May 1941 | |||||||||||
| Laid down | 16 Nov 1942 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 193) | ||||||||||
| Launched | 8 Jul 1943 | |||||||||||
| Commissioned | 19 Aug 1943 | Oblt. Kurt Hilbig | ||||||||||
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| Career 3 patrols |
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| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | |||||||||||
| Fate | Destroyed in Bergen, Norway on 4 Oct, 1944 during RAF air strike. 2 dead, unknown number of survivors. | |||||||||||
Attacks on this boat
17 Apr 1944
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down:
British Liberator aircraft BZ945 (53 Sqdn RAF/O, pilot F/L L.M. Burton)
At 03.51 hours, the inbound boat was strafed by the Leigh Light equipped Liberator northwest of Cape Finisterre. The aircraft was hit by AA fire during the approach and was observed to crash into the sea with one of the port engines on fire about 600 meters from the boat, exploding on impact and killing all 11 crewmen. Two depth charges and a small bomb dropped by the passing plane fell wide and did no damage to U-993.
(Sources: Franks/Zimmerman)1 Jun 1944
During an air attack one man was killed and another wounded, who died a day later (Aulich). [Maschinenobergefreiter Matthias Giefing, Mechanikergefreiter Horst Aulich]
2 recorded attacks on this boat.
Schnorchel-fitted U-boat
This boat was fitted with a Schnorchel underwater-breathing apparatus and sailed equipped with it in August 1944 but it was of course installed prior to that date. Read more about the Schnorchel and see list of fitted boats.
Men lost from the boat
1 Jun 1944
During an air attack one man was killed and another wounded, who died a day later (Aulich). [Maschinenobergefreiter Matthias Giefing, Mechanikergefreiter Horst Aulich]
12 Sep 1944
One man from the boat died of jaundice in the North Atlantic. [Matrosenobergfreiter Wilhelm Lucksnat]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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