1939
U-25,
5 Nov, 1939
The boat lost a man overboard in the Bay of Biscay. [Bootsmaat Wilhelm Lützeler]
Total numer of losses:
1 men in 1 incidents (1 dead
and 0 wounded)
1940
U-43,
31 Mar, 1940
U-43 lost a man overboard in the Atlantic. [I WO Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Wilhelm Behrens]
U-57,
3 Sep, 1940
The boat sank after an accidental collision with the Norwegian steamer SS Rona, taking 6 of its crew with her. She was raised shortly afterwards and put into commission as a training boat. [Obermaschinenmaat Bernhard Henz, Maschinengefreiter Kurt Kopf, Matrosengefreiter Hermann Schneider, Funkobergefreiter Kurt Sparschuh,Matrosenobergefreiter Franz Tatzreiter]
U-47,
5 Sep, 1940
The boat lost a man overboard during use of the deck gun. [MtrOGfr Heinrich Mantyk]
U-46,
27 Sep, 1940
The boat lost two men during an unintentional dive.[Oberbootsmaat Heinrich Schenk, Matrosenobergefreiter Wilhelm Reh]
U-46,
25 Oct, 1940
3 Hudson aircraft from the 228th RAF Squadron attacked U-46 and one man was fatally wounded and died the next day. [Matrosengefreiter Plaep]
U-28,
10 Nov, 1940
On U-28, Maschinengefreiter Sachse was severely injured by boiling water.
Total numer of losses:
12 men in 6 incidents (11 dead and 1 wounded)
1941
U-97,
3 Mar, 1941
The boat lost 1 man overboard in the Bay of Biscay. [Bootsmaat Artur Mei]
U-110,
23 Mar, 1941
U-110´s 105mm deck gun exploded during firing wounding 3 men.
U-105,
5 May, 1941
The 105mm gun exploded during firing wounding 6 men.
U-93,
7 May, 1941
3 men were wounded on the U-93 in an accident with the machine-gun.
U-101,
4 Jun, 1941
The boat lost a man of the gun crew overboard. [Matrosenobergefreiter Horst Jackl]
U-205,
30 Sep, 1941
The boat suffered a blow when one of its men, Fähnrich zur See Fritz Säger, took his own life.
U-331,
10 Oct, 1941
The boat fought a gun duel with 3 British landing craft off Sidi Barrani and damaged HMS TLC-18 (A 18), but was itself slightly damaged. Two men of the gun crew were wounded, one of them mortally. [Bootsmann Hans Gerstenich]
U-106,
23 Oct, 1941
An incredibly sad event befell U-106 on this date. When the replacement watch opened the tower hatch in rough seas they found out that the entire previous tower watch of 4 men had been washed overboard. [Oberleutnant zur See Werner Grüneberg, Fähnrich zur See Herbert von Bruchhausen, Oberbootsmannmaat Karl Heemann, Matrose Ewald Brühl]
U-97,
24 Oct, 1941
The IIWO of U-97 was badly injured in an accident on board, forcing the boat to return to base.
U-372,
23 Nov, 1941
During stormy weather, a lookout was badly injured on U-372.
U-562,
6 Dec, 1941
4 men from the boat were injured in an accident while reloading torpedoes.
U-201,
13 Dec, 1941
An explosion in Brest (France) harbor killed 1 man, Maschinenobergefreiter Josef Zander.
U-160,
14 Dec, 1941
U-160 lost 7 men dead and one wounded in a fire at Danzig during the boat´s working up exercises. [Maschinenmaat Melchior Schwipp, Matrosengefreiter August Männel, Matrosengefreiter Heinrich Meckenstock]
U-657,
14 Dec, 1941
Oblt. Hans-Jürgen Radke of U-657 was killed in a fire on the living quarters ship Black Prince on 14 Dec, 1941. That fire killed 28 men. The boat was still going through trials at the time.
U-701,
31 Dec, 1941
An officer was washed overboard from the U-701, being the last casualty of the year. [Leutnant zur See Bernhard Weinitschke]
U-584,
31 Dec, 1941
During heavy weather in the Arctic Sea a lookout on U-584 broke his arm.
Total numer of losses:
38 men in 16 incidents (18 dead and 20 wounded)
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