Type | VIIC/41 | |||||||||||||
| Ordered | 14 Oct 1941 | |||||||||||||
| Laid down | 25 Nov 1942 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 195) | ||||||||||||
| Launched | 22 Jul 1943 | |||||||||||||
| Commissioned | 16 Sep 1943 | Oblt. Walter Köhntopp | ||||||||||||
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| Career 9 patrols |
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| Successes | 3 ships sunk, total tonnage 1,560 GRT 1 auxiliary warship sunk, total tonnage 633 GRT 1 warship sunk, total tonnage 105 tons 1 ship a total loss, total tonnage 7,176 GRT | |||||||||||||
| Fate | Surrendered on 9 May 1945 at Trondheim, Norway (Waller & Niestlé, 2010). Transferred to Norway in Oct 1948. | |||||||||||||
Became the Norwegian submarine Kaura on 1 Dec, 1952. Stricken in 1965. Returned to Germany where she became a museum ship in Oct 1971.
Wolfpack operations
U-995 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Dachs (1 Sep 1944 - 5 Sep 1944)
Zorn (26 Sep 1944 - 1 Oct 1944)
Panther (16 Oct 1944 - 10 Nov 1944)
Stier (11 Dec 1944 - 6 Jan 1945)
Hagen (17 Mar 1945 - 21 Mar 1945)
Attacks on this boat
21 May 1944
A Canadian Sunderland aircraft (Sqdn OTU 4/S) attacked the boat wounding 5 men.
1 recorded attack on this boat.
General notes on this boat
Check out U-995's gallery page
8 May 1945. When the war came to and end in Norway U-995 was moored at Trondheim, scheduled to be fitted with a Schorchel.
Men lost from the boat
21 May 1944
A Canadian Sunderland aircraft (Sqdn OTU 4/S) attacked the boat wounding 5 men.
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
U-boat Emblems
We have 2 emblem entry for this boat! See the emblem page for this boat or view each one below.
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