U-995

Type

VIIC/41

 
Ordered14 Oct 1941
Laid down25 Nov 1942 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 195)
Launched22 Jul 1943
Commissioned16 Sep 1943Oblt. Walter Köhntopp
Commanders
16 Sep 1943 - 9 Oct 1944  Kptlt. Walter Köhntopp
10 Oct 1944 - 8 May 1945  Oblt. Hans-Georg Hess (Knights Cross)
Career
9 patrols
16 Sep 1943-31 May 1944  5. Flottille (training)
1 Jun 1944-28 Feb 1945  13. Flottille (front boat)
1 Mar 1945-8 May 1945  14. Flottille (front boat)
Successes3 ships sunk for a total of 1,560 GRT
1 auxiliary warship sunk for a total of 633 GRT
1 warship sunk for a total of 105 tons
1 ship a total loss for a total of 7,176 GRT
Fate

Stricken at Trondheim, Norway on 8 May, 1945. Surrendered to Britain and then transferred to Norway in Oct 1948.

See the 6 ships hit by U-995 - View the 9 war patrols

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

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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 -


We have emblem entries for this boat!

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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.
Die Männer von U-995. Hess, Hans-Georg, 1987.
U-995. Wetzel, Eckard, 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.