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Here below is a listing of all U-boats that suffered losses from their crews as listed in our database. It is listed by the U-boats involved. This list is not 100% complete as we did not include all the smaller incidents where perhaps 1-2 men were slighlty wounded.

U 24, 27 May 1944
The boat fought a surface battle with 2 Soviet patrol boats. The U-boat lost 1 man dead and 2 wounded. [Matrosenobergefreiter Johann Wölbitsch]

U 25, 5 Nov 1939
The boat lost a man overboard in the Bay of Biscay. [Bootsmaat Wilhelm Lützeler]

U 28, 10 Nov 1940
On U-28, Maschinengefreiter Sachse was severely injured by boiling water.

U 43, 31 Mar 1940
U-43 lost a man overboard in the Atlantic. [I WO Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Wilhelm Behrens]

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 47, 5 Sep 1940
The boat lost a man overboard during use of the deck gun. [MtrOGfr Heinrich Mantyk]

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 66, 3 Aug 1943
At 21.35 hours, the boat was surprised by a Avenger/Wildcat team (VC-1 USN) from USS Card in the Central Atlantic. The aircraft made several strafing runs and one depth charge apparently exploded directly under the boat. The II.WO Oblt Kurt Schütze and Mtrgfr Erich Lorenz were killed and MechGfr Heinz Nitsch died of wounds during the night. The commander and FzS Pfaff were seriously and the I.WO and five ratings were slightly wounded. U-117 was ordered to meet U-66 three days later for medical assistance und to transfer a WO as replacement.

U 67, 27 Oct 1942
After an explosion during torpedo loading on the U-67 one man was killed. [Matrosenobergefreiter Heinz Hartmann]

U 68, 14 Jun 1943
At 09.33 hours, the outbound boat was strafed by one of four Mosquito aircraft. More details about this incident can be found on the page about U-155. Aboard U-68, the commander, the II.WO and another crew member were wounded. The I.WO Oblt E. Scherraus temporary took over the command. One crew member [Obergefreiter Hans Schaumburg] operating a MG38 machine-gun was apparently hit too, fell overboard and could not be recovered. The boat returned to base due to the casualties together with U-155 and later transferred its doctor to the other boat.

U 81, 5 Apr 1942
On U-81 one crew member was injured during an accident.

U 91, 27 Mar 1943
At 22.45 hours, the inbound boat was attacked by a Leigh-Light equipped British Wellington aircraft (RAF Sqdn 172 / M) in the Bay of Biscay. No damage to the boat. Due to a misunderstanding it dived, leaving three men on the bridge. They resurfaced immediately and found two of them still on the tower, but the crewman who fired the AA gun until the last moment was missing. [Oberbootsmaat Heinrich Hollenborg]

U 92, 29 Nov 1943
A man fell overboard from the boat on this day. [ObGfr Friedrich Witzkonski]

U 93, 7 May 1941
3 men were wounded on the U-93 in an accident with the machine-gun.

U 97, 3 Mar 1941
The boat lost 1 man overboard in the Bay of Biscay. [Bootsmaat Artur Mei]

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 101, 4 Jun 1941
The boat lost a man of the gun crew overboard. [Matrosenobergefreiter Horst Jackl]

U 105, 5 May 1941
The 105mm gun exploded during firing wounding 6 men.

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 106, 27 Jul 1942
A Wellington aircraft (Sqdn 311/A) attacked U-106 killing the I WO Oberleutnant zur See Günter Wißmann and wounding the Commander. The boat had only left Lorient, France 2 days earlier and was forced to return, arriving on July 28.

U 107, 4 Jan 1944
At 19.34 hours, the inbound boat fought off a four-engined aircraft in the Bay of Biscay. No bombs dropped, one crewman slightly wounded by strafing.

U 110, 23 Mar 1941
U-110´s 105mm deck gun exploded during firing wounding 3 men.

U 117, 8 Nov 1942
While refuelling U-454 on 8 Nov Leutnant zur See der Reserve Helmut Schwenzel from U-117 was washed overboard.

U 119, 29 Apr 1943
At 11.24 hours, the outbound boat was strafed and bombed by an Australian Sunderland aircraft (RAAF Sqdn 461 / P). The boat was not damaged, but one man was killed by gunfire. [Bootsmaat Alfred Schmidt]

U 123, 27 Mar 1942
After being torpedoed by U-123 the American Q-ship USS Atik (AK 101) surprised and attacked the boat off the US East coast. In the action one man from U-123 was fatally wounded and the Q-ship was sunk with all hands. [Fähnrich zur See Rudi Holzer]

U 123, 7 Nov 1943
At 09.44 hours, the inbound U-boat was attacked by a Mosquito aircraft (RAF Sqdn 618, pilot F/O Al Bonnett RCAF) in the Bay of Biscay. This was the first attack by a "TseTse" Mosquito (equipped with a 57mm cannon) and the hit scored on the conning tower killed 1 man, wounded 2 others and left the U-boat unable to dive due to a hole of 18 x 6,5cm. [Bootsmaat Günther Struve]

U 129, 21 May 1943
During refueling by U-459 two men from the boat were washed overboard by a big wave. One of them was soon recovered, but the other remained missing. [Matrosengefreiter Hans Rüchel]

U 134, 15 Jan 1943
On 15 Jan one crewmember died by suicide.

U 135, 10 Aug 1942
At 18.25 hours, the outbound boat was strafed and attacked with 4 bombs by a Czech Wellington aircraft (RAF Sqdn 311 / H, pilot F/O J. Nývlt) in the Bay of Biscay. The boat fired with the 20mm AA gun during the first attack and recieved 6 more bombs after crash-diving.

U-135 only suffered minor damage, but one crewman had been killed by gunfire and another died of wounds one hour after the attack. [Matrosenobergefreiter Emil Hafner, Matrosenobergefreiter Erhard Pömpner]

U 154, 12 May 1944
The Commander of the boat, Oblt. Oskar Kusch, was executed on 12 May ´for his anti-Hitler views´ after his IWO* turned him in. He was convicted in late January, his photo is on the right.

* The former I WO and then the commander of U-193, the lawyer Oblt. Ulrich Abel, died when his boat was sunk on 24 April, 1944.

U 155, 10 Mar 1942
When returning from the US-East coast the boat lost I WO Oberleutnant zur See Gert Rentrop overboard.

U 155, 19 Aug 1942
During an aircraft attack on U-155 a man was lost overboard. [Maschinengefreiter Konrad Garneier]

U 155, 14 Jun 1943
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down:
Polish Mosquito HJ648 (307 Sqdn RAF/B, pilot S/L S. Szablowski)

At 09.29 hours, four Mosquito aircraft (3 from 307 Polish Sqdn RAF and 1 from 410 Sqdn RCAF) attacked a group of 5 outbound boats (U-68, U-155, U-159, U-415 and U-634) in the Bay of Biscay. The leading Mosquito first strafed U-68 and then U-155, but its port engine stopped after being hit by AA fire and the aircraft was forced to make a belly landing back at the base in Predannack. A second Mosquito, piloted by F/O J. Pelka, attacked too but its guns did not fire and the remaining aircraft did not attack due to the intense AA fire.
5 crew members aboard U-155 were wounded, two of them badly. The boat returned to base together with U-68 and recieved the doctor from her for medical treatment of the wounded men.

U 155, 23 Jun 1944
Mosquito aircraft (Sqdn 248/P) attacked the boat. 2 men were killed and 7 more wounded. The boat was almost in port when attacked and reached Lorient the same day. [Matrosenobergefreiter Karl Lohmeier, Mechanikerobergefreiter Friedrich Feller]

U 156, 16 Feb 1942
U-156 began to shell the oil refinery at Aruba in the Caribbean, but the gun crew forgot to remove the water plug from the barrel, causing an explosion that killed one man [Matrosengefreiter Heinrich Büssinger]. The gunnery officer [II WO Leutnant zur See Dietrich von dem Borne, see right] lost his right leg in this incident, and so had to be put ashore into captivity at Martinique on 21 February. The commander decided to saw off the ruined portion of the gun barrel, and using this shorter barrel, on 27 February U-156 sank a 2,498-ton British steamer.

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 167, 8 Jan 1943
The first man lost from a U-boat in 1943 was during a storm when one man was washed overboard while saving the I WO. Also the commander was wounded and so the boat was brought back to base with the IWO in command on 16 Jan. [Obersteuermann Walter Schliephake]

U 172, 11 Aug 1943
While rescuing men from the just-scuttled U-604 the U-172 was attacked by an aircraft and 1 man from its crew was killed. [Maschinenobergefreiter Fritz Schiemann]

U 177, 23 Sep 1942
On 23 Sept at 0605hrs a man was lost overboard from U-177. [Bootsmannmaat Erwin Henning]

U 181, 11 Apr 1943
The new 37mm anti-aircraft cannon on U-181 exploded in action while on patrol in the South Atlantic killing one man and wounding two more. [Matrosengefreiter Wilhelm Williger]

U 183, 13 May 1944
One man was killed in an accident working in a diving cell while preparing for its next patrol in the Far East. The boat left for the patrol from Penang on 17 May. [Obermaschinenmaat Erich Adelsheimer]

U 185, 3 Aug 1943
While looking for the U-604 to attack her again a Ventura aircraft (Sqdn VB-107, pilot Prueher) instead found the U-185 and attacked her with depth charges and wounding one man.

U 188, 2 May 1943
At 10.14 hours, the inbound boat was strafed and attacked with 4 bombs by a British Whitley aircraft (RAF Sqdn 612 / W) in the Bay of Biscay. Gunfire wounded the commander KptLt Siegfried Lüdden and another crew member, who died in a hospital in Paris on 14 May. [Matrosengefreiter Leo Rupp]

U 190, 18 Oct 1943
During stormy weather a lookout broke his arm.

U 193, 6 Jul 1943
An unknown aircraft hit the boat wounding 2 men and destroying the Metox equipment.

U 195, 20 Jul 1943
One man was lost during an air attack in the Bay of Biscay. [Matrosenobergefreiter Arthur List]

U 197, 4 Nov 1942
Obermaschinist Alfred Wernicke died after an accident in Kiel.

U 197, 20 May 1943
The boat was bombed and strafed by an American Mitchell aircraft northeast of Ascension. The periscope was damaged and gunfire wounded a crew member, who died the next day. [Bootsmaat Viktor Rainer]

U 198, 19 Jul 1944
After the boat unsuccessfully fired torpedoes at a freighter, a corvette attacked U-198 with depth charges. No damages.

U 201, 13 Dec 1941
An explosion in Brest (France) harbor killed 1 man, Maschinenobergefreiter Josef Zander.

U 203, 11 Sep 1942
The commander of U-203 (Kptlt. Rolf Mützelburg) died in a unique incident on 11 Sept. He allowed his crew to swim in the sea and when he was about to dive from the tower the boat moved and he hit the saddle tank being badly wounded. He died the next day.

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 209, 9 Jul 1942
Two men were lost during an accident on the landing place in the harbor of Bergen, Norway. The boat went on its next patrol on 17 July. [Funkgefreiter Edmund Kiepulski, Funkgefreiter Alfons Kuklinski]

U 214, 7 May 1943
At 10.14 hours, the outbound boat was attacked out of the sun by the British Halifax aircraft HR745 (58 Sqdn RAF/S, pilot W/C W.E. Oulton, DFC) in the Bay of Biscay. The aircraft was damaged by AA fire in the first attack, but made a second to drop the remaining 3 depth charges. The boat evaded both attacks and then crash-dived with only minor damages, but the commander Kptlt Günther Reeder had been severely wounded by gunfire (he did not sail again on U-boats). The I.WO Oblt Rupprecht Stock took over the command and brought U-214 back to base.

The aircraft was formerly credited with the destruction of U-663, but this boat sank after being attacked by an Australian Sunderland aircraft (10 Sqdn RAAF/W).

U 218, 2 May 1943
A crew member on U-218 broke his leg.

U 218, 2 Aug 1943
6 men were wounded during an attack from a Wellington aircraft (Sqdn 547/B). The boat was damaged and had to abort its mine-laying mission and arrived in Brest, France on 6 August.

U 220, 16 Oct 1943
Two men were lost overboard in the North Atlantic. [Bootsmaat Georg Koerner, Matrosenobergefreiter Gerhard Lange]. Thus only 54 men were on board when the boat was sunk 12 days later.

U 221, 22 Mar 1943
A captured seaman from the tanker ´Jamaica´, which was sunk two weeks earlier, jumped overboard.

U 223, 11 May 1943
The British destroyer HMS Hesperus depth charged the U-223 to the surface and then rammed her on 11 May. 2 men were lost overboard, U-359 rescued one of them and transferred him back to U-223 on 14 May as she had managed to escape the destroyer. U-223 (unable to dive) returned to port on 24 May but did not sail again until 14 Sept while being repaired. [Matrosengefreiter Heinz Hoog]

U 228, 7 May 1943
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down:
British Halifax HR792 (58 Sqdn RAF/A, pilot Sgt N.F. Robertson, RAAF)

At 10.50 hours, the outbound boat was attacked by the Halifax in the Bay of Biscay. The initial attack was broken off due to heavy AA fire, but the aircraft then made a strafing attack from the bow and released six depth charges, which overshot the boat and detonated about 25 metres astern. The attack gave U-228 a severe shaking and wounded the II WO and a seaman. The Germans observed several AA hits on the aircraft (misidentified as Lancaster) and saw smoke before crash-diving. The Halifax and its crew of seven men did not return from patrol and apparently crashed shortly after this attack.

U 231, 22 Apr 1943
At 03.00 hours, a British Catalina aircraft (Sqdn 190/T) attacked U-231 with 2 bombs and machine-gun fire southeast of Iceland. The boat was not damaged, but one man was lost overboard. [Obersteuermann Walter Krause]

At 12.29 hours, the boat was attacked by a British Catalina aircraft (Sqdn 190/E) with 4 bombs and again escaped undamaged.

U 238, 30 Nov 1943
Avengers from the escort carrier USS Bogue attacked the boat killing 2 and wounding 5 men. [Matrosenobergefreiter Jakob Philipp]

U 244, 25 Jul 1944
Two Norwegian Mosquito aircraft (Sqdn 333, E/F) attacked the boat killing 1 and wounding 7 men. The boat aborted to base.

U 255, 11 Mar 1944
The boat was attacked by aircraft and 2 men were wounded. The boat continued its patrol after treating its wounded (a meeting with U-608 with a doctor on board did not succeed).

U 257, 14 Jun 1943
At 16.05 hours, U-257 in a group of 3 outbound boats with U-600 and U-615 was strafed and attacked with 3 depth charges by a British Whitley aircraft (10 OTU RAF/P, pilot P/O Orr) in the Bay of Biscay. One crewman was wounded.
Another Whitley aircraft from the same unit (10 OTU RAF/E, pilot Sgt Manson) exchanged gunfire with this group shortly afterwards, but the aircraft had used up its depth charges in an earlier attack.

U 258, 22 Sep 1942
The navigator was lost overboard from U-258. [Obersteuermann Heinrich Wittmann]

U 258, 12 Jan 1943
During heavy weather in the North Atlantic a lookout on U-258 broke his arm.

U 262, 28 Aug 1944
3 men from the boat were killed and 1 more wounded during an air raid on La Pallice. The boat left for its next patrol on 23 August for its traverse to Germany, reaching Flensburg on 5 November.

U 268, 22 Jan 1943
Leutnant zur See Wilhem Deutsch was lost by washing overboard. (When U-268 was sunk four weeks later only 44 men were killed, instead of the normally reported figure of 45 men.)

U 270, 4 Apr 1943
On U-270 three crew members were injured due to very bad weather.

U 271, 21 Oct 1943
While serving as a Flak boat U-271 was attacked by two Avengers from USS Core on 21 Oct and one man from its crew died.

U 276, 2 May 1944
On U-276 two crew members were wounded in an accident with the anti-aircraft gun.

U 276, 25 May 1944
An unknown aircraft attacked the boat causing 3 casualties and severely damaging the boat forcing her to return to base.

U 286, 18 Jul 1944
On 18 July a Norwegian Mosquito aircraft (Sqdn 333/K) attacked the boat, causing damages and killing 1 man and wounding 7 more. The boat reached Kristiansand, Norway on the same day.

U 290, 14 Jun 1944
A Norwegian Mosquito aircraft (Sqdn 333/H, pilots Erling U. Johansen and Lauritz Humlen) damaged the boat and wounded 8 of its crew. Two days later the boat arrived at its Bergen, Norway base.

U 299, 16 Jul 1944
The commander was wounded in an aircraft attack. The boat, part of a defence line off Norway, reached Bergen 4 days later.

U 306, 7 May 1943
At 06.55 hours, the inbound boat was attacked by the British Halifax aircraft HR745 (58 Sqdn RAF/S, pilot W/C W.E. Oulton, DFC). Six depth charges were dropped about 15 seconds after U-306 crash-dived without damaging the boat.

U 309, 30 Sep 1943
One went missing in the North Atlantic while working out on the deck. [Mechanikergefreiter Erich Jungmann]

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 333, 6 Oct 1942
The boat fought an epic battle with the British corvette HMS Crocus on 6 Oct, 1942. The U-boat lost 3 men dead (including the IWO) and several men wounded, including the commander, Peter Erich Cremer. The boat was heavily damaged and limped back to base with help from a replacement WO, Kptlt. Lorenz Kasch, from the U-107. The doctor from the Milk Cow U-459 helped the wounded. Cremer then spent 3 months in a hospital.[Oberleutnant zur See Bernhard Hermann, Bootsmaat Heinz Kurze, Maschinenobergefreiter Erwin Levermann].

U 334, 13 Apr 1942
A day before U-334 reached its base at Trondheim, Norway the 19 year old Matrosengefreiter Otto Mayerhofer was lost overboard.

U 338, 17 Jun 1943
A B-17 Fortress (Sqdn 206/F) killed the Obersteuermann and wounded 3 men during an attack that damaged the boat. [Obersteuermann Paul Trefflich]

U 340, 25 Aug 1943
U-340 rescued 5 Luftwaffe airmen off Spain on 25 August. Shortly afterwards the boat was attacked by an aircraft and a few men were wounded, the boat being damaged.

U 343, 8 Jan 1944
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down:
British Wellington (179 Sqdn RAF/R, pilot F/O W.F.M. Davidson)

After the boat had fought off two aircraft attacks the day before, the Allies started a swamp operation and at 21.40 hours a Wellington (36 Sqdn RAF/B) located U-343 southwest of Cartagena which was then attacked by a Wellington (179 Sqdn RAF, pilot W/C J.H. Greswell, DFC) followed by another Wellington of the same squadron. The aircraft dropped six depth charges but several AA hits set the port wing on fire and the aircraft crashed into the sea, killing five crewmen. Only the pilot was thrown clear and rescued himself into a dinghy that was passed closely by the U-boat twice but the Germans did not take him prisoner because they had "more important things to do". He was picked up by HMS Active the next morning and later recieved the DFC.

The boat had already sustained damages in the attacks but there was still more to come because a Catalina (202 Sqdn RAF, pilot F/L J. Finch) joined the attack that lasted until 23.00 hours. AA fire damaged the port wing, fuselage and both fuel tanks of the Catalina and wounded the flight engineer, so the aircraft was forced to head for home. U-343, badly damaged and unable to dive, managed to escape in the darkness with only one crewman wounded by strafing and after repairs the boat safely reached her new base.

U 348, 6 May 1944
Two men stepped on a land mine near Stavanger, Norway. One was killed, the other wounded. The boat departed for its second patrol from Bergen on the 20th. [Bootsmaat Günter Labahn]

U 348, 28 Jan 1945
One man died near Gotenhafen. [Matrose Hermann Witthöft]

U 349, 5 May 1945
When the boat was scuttled Obermaschinist Wilhelm Hegenbarth set the charges off and refused to leave the boat.

U 354, 11 Nov 1942
U-354 lost one man overboard on 11 Nov. [Fähnrich zur See Horst Mayen]

U 354, 12 Mar 1943
A man from U-354 took his own life. [Maschinenmaat Helmut Richter]

U 370, 23 Sep 1944
In the Baltic Sea a man was washed overboard. [Matrosengefreiter Erwin Stiegeler]

U 372, 23 Nov 1941
During stormy weather, a lookout was badly injured on U-372.

U 373, 24 Jul 1943
Near Madeira, Portugal, U-373 was attacked by Avenger and Wildcat aircraft from the escort carrier USS Santee on 24 July. The boat was damaged by a Fido homing torpedo hit killing 2 and wounding 7 men. The boat did not have to abort its mission. [Matrosenobergefreiter Franz Schulte, Matrosengefreiter Peter Regneri]

U 373, 10 Nov 1943
During stormy weather a lookout on U-373 broke his arm.

U 375, 16 Dec 1941
At 18.19 hours the boat was attacked by a flying boat in the Mediterranean. The aircraft dropped 7 depth charges on U-375 after the boat crash-dived. No damages.

U 376, 27 Jan 1943
The boat had to break off her one-day old patrol in the North Atlantic when some crew members were wounded in an air attack.

U 376, 31 Jan 1943
The boat left Bergen, Norway on 30 Jan for the 6th patrol, but the next day at 0057 hrs lost the third watch officer when he was washed overboard. U-376 then headed back to Bergen, took aboard a replacement and departed for patrol the same day. [Obersteuermann Heinz Richter]

U 377, 22 Sep 1943
On 22 Sept a B-24 Liberator (Sqdn 10) attacked the U-377, wounding the commander. The boat had to return to port under the command of the I WO.

U-377 after its return to base. Behind the flotilla commander is the wounded commander Oblt.z.S. Kluth

U 380, 11 Mar 1944
The boat was destroyed during an air raid on Toulon, France on 11 March and one man from its crew was killed. [Maschinenmaat Jonny Christoph]

U 406, 23 Aug 1943
An attack by an aircraft killed 2 men and wounded 3 more men.

U 407, 9 Jan 1944
In an air raid on Pola the U-boat pens there were hit and 4 men from U-407 were killed and 1 more wounded. The boat sailed for the next time on 29 Jan. [Oberleutnant (Ing) Heinz Weser, Leutnant zur See Eberhard Baumgart, Maschinenobergfreiter Rudolf Güttge, Maschinenobergefreiter Heinz Bönisch]

U 415, 14 Jun 1943
In the afternoon, a British Whitley aircraft (10 OTU RAF/E, pilot Sgt Manson) found a group of 3 outbound boats (U-159, U-415 and U-634) and sent a contact report instead of attacking. When the boats dived, the aircraft attacked and dropped 4 depth charges on U-415 at 15.54 hours. No damages.

U 420, 3 Jul 1943
On 3 July U-420 was attacked by a Canadian B-24 Liberator aircraft (Sqdn 10/B) and two men were killed with one more wounded when the boat was hit with a Fido homing torpedo. She was severely damaged and arrived at Lorient on 16 July. [Bootsmann Heinz Grosser, Matrosengefreiter Willi Noeske]

U 422, 23 Sep 1943
The boat was depth charged and gunned by an allied aircraft (reported by the boat as "Halifax"). The boat suffered 3 men wounded, two of them seriously. Asking for medical assistance the boat finally met the tanker U-460 on the 29th of September.

U 441, 12 Jul 1943
The Flak boat was strafed by three British Beaufighter aircraft (248 Squadron RAF) in the Bay of Biscay. 10 men were killed and 13 more wounded, including all of the naval officers. Hartmann was wounded, so the doctor Paul Pfaffinger took over the command, recovered the wounded and brought the boat safely back to Brest. He recieved the Deutsche Kreuz in Gold for this feat. This action let to the abandonment of the Flak boats and all were reverted to their orginal configuration.

U 442, 10 Oct 1942
On board U-442, bad weather caused an accident in which one man was badly injured.

U 443, 9 Oct 1942
During very bad weather in the North Atlantic a lookout on broke his arm.

U 450, 6 Jun 1943
A British B-17 aircraft (Sqdn 220/A) caught the U-450 on the surface on 6 June wounding 7 men. Boat was heavily damaged and reached the base at Brest only with assistance of other boats.

U 450, 5 Feb 1944
One man was washed overboard in the Mediterranean. [Matrosengefreiter Thomas Heneka]

U 453, 13 Oct 1942
1 man was killed and 3 wounded on U-453 in an accident during handling the machine gun. [Matrosengefreiter Horst Saupe + on 13th Oct., Steuermannsgefreiter Helmut Lorenz died 2 months later]

U 453, 24 Feb 1944
During test firing with the machine gun at the base in Salamis, Greece were two men killed (not crew members).

U 454, 26 Feb 1942
Two days after leaving Trondheim, Norway U-454 lost Matrosengefreiter Josef Kauer overboard.

U 455, 24 Mar 1943
On U-455 a crew member was injured as the result of an accident with the anti-aircraft machine gun.

U 462, 21 Jun 1943
This Milk-cow suffered one dead and 4 wounded during an attack from Mosquito aircraft from RAF Squadrons 151 & 456. [Matrosengefreiter Ferdinand Brunnbaur]. The boat had to abort patrol and return to port.

U 466, 24 Jul 1943
On 24 July U-466 was attacked by a B-24 Liberator aircraft, the boat was damaged and 5 men were wounded, including the first officer which was badly wounded.

U 471, 23 Dec 1943
A British B-24 Liberator aircraft attack (Sqdn 120/O) on U-471 on 23 Dec wounded 3 men.

U 476, 24 May 1944
The boat was scuttled on 24 May after a crippling damage from a British Catalina aircraft (Sqdn 210/V). U-990 saved 21 of the crew, 34 died went down with the boat. But the U-990 was sunk by a B-24 Liberator aircraft the very next day and then even more men from the U-476 died.

U 483, 12 Oct 1944
During a Schnorchel failure the crew suffered a CO₂ poisoning where 1 man died. [Funkmaat Gustav Hoffmann]

U 488, 15 Oct 1943
A man died of illness on 15 Oct. [Maschinenmaat Karl Bergmann]

U 488, 25 Nov 1943
A man fell overboard, he was rescued died of heart failure shortly afterwards. [Matrosenobergefreiter Heinz Heinlein]

U 505, 10 Nov 1942
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down:
British Hudson V9253 (53 Sqdn RAF/L, pilot F/S R.R. Sillcock, RAAF)

The II WO and one lookout from the U-505 were seriously wounded in a surprising air attack out of low clouds by a Hudson aircraft southeast of Trinidad. The aircraft dropped four depth charges and scored a direct hit, but was lost with its five-man crew in the explosion. The boat was damaged heavily and broke off its patrol. 12 days later the wounded II WO was transferred to the Milk Cow U-462.

U 505, 24 Oct 1943
The commander of U-505, Kptlt. Peter Zschech, committed suicide while under a heavy depth charge attack on 24 Oct. This was the only such case in the war. The IWO, Meyer, saved the boat and brought it back to port.

U 507, 5 May 1942
During handling of a torpedo one crew member on U-507 broke his arm.

U 513, 3 Apr 1943
The boat was attacked by a British Hudson aircraft (RAF Sqdn 233 / U) with 2 bombs north of the Canary Islands and suffered minor damages.

U 514, 3 Jun 1942
During a rescue action in the Baltic Sea an officer lost his life. [I WO Leutnant zur See der Reserve Rolf Kühl]

U 515, 20 Sep 1942
A gunner from U-515 was killed in a misfire accident on on the 2cm machine gun. [Matrosengefreiter Matthias Biazza]

U 515, 15 Jun 1944
The former commander of the boat, Kptlt. Werner Henke, one of the top aces, sunk on 9 April, committed suicide by pretending to be escaping the POW camp on 15 June after falling victim for US mind games while in captivity.

U 533, 25 Apr 1943
The boat was attacked by an American PBY-5A Catalina of VP-84/P-5. Three of U-533´s gun crew were injured by the Catalina's .30 cal. gunfire. They were: (Bootsmaat Buttkus, Matrosengefreiter Ludwig and Matrosengefreiter Fekken). All of them went again out to sea and Buttkus and Ludwig perished with the boat the following October.

U 541, 12 Nov 1944
One man from U-541 died on 22 Nov after an accident in Flensburg. [Maschinengefreiter Valentin Seile]

U 545, 26 Jan 1944
The I WO was washed overboard in the North Atlantic. [Oberleutnant zur See Hans Wilkening]

U 546, 16 Feb 1944
A Sunderland aircraft attacked the boat in the North Atlantic and one man died. The suffered some disel engine damages but reported it was able to continue its patrol. [Matrosengefreiter Wilhelm van de Kamp]

U 548, 30 Aug 1944
One man was missing after crash diving. [Mechanikergefreiter (A) Walter Heise]

U 550, 22 Feb 1944
A Catalina aircraft (RCAF Sqdn 162/S, pilot Flying Officer C. C. Cunningham) attacked her with machine guns and 4 depth charges in the North Atlantic. Two crew members were killed. The boat was lost on the same patrol on 16 April.

U 562, 6 Dec 1941
4 men from the boat were injured in an accident while reloading torpedoes.

U 563, 7 Apr 1943
A British B-24 Liberator (Sqdn 86) attacked the boat with 3 depth charges. The U-boat was only slightly damaged but during the crash dive 2 men were lost overboard. [Oberbootsmaat Christian Wieland, Matrosengefreiter Rudolf Schädlich]

U 564, 28 Mar 1943
A man was lost in the North Atlantic. [Fähnrich zur See Heinrich Feuerhake]

U 571, 22 Apr 1943
The boat had to return to base because the commander was badly injured in an accident on the conning tower.

U 575, 25 Jan 1942
During bad weather in the North Atlantic a lookout on U-575 broke his arm.

U 575, 5 Oct 1942
A man was lost overboard from U-575. [Oberbootsmaat Herbert Bühler]

U 582, 10 Jan 1942
During heavy weather in the North Atlantic a lookout on U-582 broke his arm.

U 584, 31 Dec 1941
During heavy weather in the Arctic Sea a lookout on U-584 broke his arm.

U 584, 10 Oct 1943
One man was lost in the North Atlantic. (Thus only 52 men were onboard when the boat was sunk 3 weeks later, instead of 53 like in most sources)

U 585, 5 Feb 1942
The 21 year old Fähnrich zur See Eberhardt Vollmer (Crew 1940) was lost overboard in the south Barents Sea.

U 590, 21 Mar 1943
On U-590 a crew member broke his arm.

U 591, 29 Jan 1942
During bad weather in the North Atlantic a lookout on U-591 broke his arm.

U 591, 15 May 1943
At 12.36 hours, the outbound boat was strafed and bombed by a British Whitley aircraft (RAF Sqdn 10 OTU / M, pilot F/Sgt G.W. Brookes) in the Bay of Biscay. The boat was not damaged, but the commander Kptlt. Hans-Jürgen Zetzsche and one crew member had been wounded by gunfire and this forced the boat to abort the patrol.

U 594, 25 May 1942
During a patrol in the Caribbean one man was lost during crash diving. [Matrosengefreiter Walter Kunde]

U 596, 30 Aug 1942
In the North Atlantic U-596 lost a man overboard. [Fähnrich zur See Wolfgang Aldag]

U 598, 5 Aug 1942
While U-598 was refuelling in the Middle Atlantic by U-463 one of its men drowned during maintenance work on the hydroplanes and propellers. [Maschinenmaat Willi Bredereck]

U 600, 16 Jun 1943
At 09.04 hours, a group of 3 outbound boats was attacked by the British Liberator Mk.V aircraft FL973 (59 Sqdn RAF/C, pilot F/O E.E. Allen, RCAF) northwest of Cape Finisterre. The aircraft dropped six depth charges on U-600 in the centre and caused minor damages, but was hit four times by AA fire from all boats. Strafing from the rear gunner killed one crewman [Matrosengefreiter Georg Laub]. As the pilot flew away to examine the damages, the boats began to dive. The aircraft dropped its remaining depth charges ahead of the swirl of the starboard boat before leaving for the base.

U 601, 4 May 1943
The II WO on U-601 was killed in a machine gun misfire.

U 604, 30 Jul 1943
U-604 was attacked by a B-24 Liberator aircraft (VB-129) on 30 July and both the IWO and the Boatswain were killed in action. [Oberleutnant zur See Frank Aschmann (see right) and Oberbootsmaat Herbert Lurz]. They boat was left in a crippled state but nonetheless manged to get away from the area.

U 608, 17 Oct 1943
During heavy weather a lookout on U-608 broke his arm.

U 610, 16 Dec 1942
During heavy weather in the North Atlantic a lookout on U-610 broke his arm.

U 610, 22 Apr 1943
During heavy weather a lookout on U-610 broke his arm.

U 612, 6 Aug 1942
During training in the Baltic U-612 collided with U-444 killing two men from U-612 which sank to the seabed. The boat was later raised and used for training. [Obermaschinist Wilhelm Merz, Maschinenobergefreiter Gerhard Ehrlich] (The I WO Herbert A. Werner described the loss in his book ´Iron Coffins´)

U 615, 14 Jun 1943
At 21.12 hours, a group of 3 outbound boats (U-257, U-600 and U-615) was attacked by a British Wellington aircraft (547 Sqdn RAF/H, pilot P/O J.W. Hermiston) in the Bay of Biscay. The aircraft strafed U-615 and killed one of the gunners. [Bootsmaat Heinz Wilke]

U 620, 10 Nov 1942
One seaman from U-620 was killed in another air attack. [Bootsmaat Josef Leisten]

U 621, 13 Jan 1944
While serving as a Flak boat on 13 Jan U-621 was attacked by a British B-24 Liberator (Sqdn 59/A) and suffered 1 man killed and 6 wounded. Matrosengefreiter Heinz Thomas was mortally wounded and later buried at sea. The commander decided to abort the patrol. U-621 took ten days to limp back to Brest.

U 625, 2 Jan 1944
At 21.38 hours, the inbound boat was attacked by a Leigh Light equipped British Liberator aircraft (224 Sqdn RAF/G, pilot P/O J.E. Edwards) in the Bay of Biscay. U-625 initially opened fire with the AA guns and one hit was scored on the port side of the aircraft, wounding the radio operator with splinters, but then began to crash-dive. The commander Kptlt. Hans Benker cancelled the dive so that he and one crewman could recover the Naxos wire, but the order was not recognised and the boat continued the dive causing Benker and the other man to drown.

U 629, 16 Dec 1943
On U-629 a lookout broke his arm during a strong storm.

U 631, 8 Oct 1943
The commander broke his hand in an accident during patrol.

U 634, 10 Mar 1943
Man was lost overboard. [Bootsmaat Ernst Adam]

U 635, 15 Feb 1943
A man from U-635 took his own life in Hamburg. [Maschinengefreiter Werner Grande]

U 636, 13 Dec 1944
During an air attack on U-636, the machine gun exploded, wounding four crew members.

U 637, 26 Apr 1945
Norwegian MTB's (motor torpedo boats) 711 and 723 claim sunk a German U-boat near Utsira, Norway. This attack was in fact aganst the U-637 which survived. The commander of the U-boat shot him self fatally after being seriously wounded in the face. The Engineering officer brought the boat to shore. Several men were lost in this action. [Kapitänleutnant Wolfgang Riekeberg]

U 653, 18 Aug 1942
Near convoy SL.119 a British B-24 Liberator aircraft (Sqdn 120/F) attacked U-653. During the crash diving one man was lost. (There was a report that the man was saved by a British destroyer.) The boat was seriously damaged and had to limp back to base, reaching Brest, France on 30 August. [Matrosengefreiter Willi Pröhl]

U 653, 22 Dec 1942
The boat lost a man washed overboard at 0810hrs. [Bootsmaat Heinz Wendler]

U 653, 13 Feb 1943
During heavy seas U-653 lost an officer overboard. [Oberleutnant zur See Werner Laudon]

U 653, 9 Mar 1943
Man was lost overboard. [Bootsmaat Walter Mayer]

U 654, 12 Jan 1942
During heavy weather in the North Atlantic a lookout on U-654 broke his arm.

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 657, 27 Apr 1942
The boat was damaged in an Allied air raid on the harbor at Trondheim, Norway. One crew member was injured.

U 669, 25 Jul 1943
A man from U-669 died on 25 July but I do not have the details. The boat was at this time in St. Nazaire. [Bootsmaat Erich Bergner]

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 703, 29 Mar 1942
One crew member on U-703 was badly injured in an accident off Heligoland.

U 703, 1 Mar 1944
During an air attack the boat suffered 3 dead and 3 wounded. The damaged boat reached Narvik, Norway two days later. [Funkobermaat Paul Kretschmar (died on 7 March), Bootsmaat Erich Junker Maschinengefreiter Heinz Schade].

U 706, 27 Oct 1942
The same day 3 men were washed overboard from the U-706, 2 men died but the third was saved by U-463. [Leutnant zur See Erich Eichmann, see right, Matrosenobergefreiter Ralf Köhler]

U 709, 12 Jul 1943
A torpedo explosion on board of U-709 killed 2 men and wounded another.

U 711, 30 Sep 1943
On 30 Sept, U-711 suffered a man lost during landing in Narvik. [Maschinengefreiter Heinz Schiefelbein]

U 717, 14 Oct 1944
During an air raid on Libau 2 men from the boat were killed and 3 more wounded. [Matrosenobergefreiter Walter Steube, Maschinenobergefreiter August Großdonk]

U 731, 4 Oct 1943
A Hudson aircraft (Sqdn 269/S) attacked U-731 on 4 Oct. The commander and 5 more men were wounded and the boat was damaged. The boat did not have to abort its patrol.

U 733, 3 Mar 1945
The commander of the boat died after an accident in Wesermünde. [Oberleutnat zur See Hans Hellmann]

U 734, 9 Dec 1943
During heavy weather a lookout broke his arm on U-734 in the North Atlantic.

U 737, 22 Oct 1944
The boat was attacked in the Arctic Sea by a Soviet aircraft. Three crew members were injured and the boat suffered slight damage.

U 738, 3 Aug 1943
Two men were lost overboard in the Baltic Sea. [Bootsmaat Heinz Richter, Matrosengefreiter Josef Häseling]

U 743, 20 Jun 1944
During an aircraft attack by a British B-24 Liberator (RAF 86 Sqd/K) on the boat 1 man was killed and 2 more wounded. The boat aborted to Bergen, Norway after this attack.

U 755, 26 May 1943
At 06.26 hours, the boat was attacked by a British Hudson aircraft (500 Sqdn RAF, pilot S/L H.G. Holmes, DFC) 13 miles north of Alboran Island in the Mediterranean. The aircraft was hit in the port engine by AA fire during the first attack run, but dropped three depth charges. The Hudson then made two dive-bombing attacks and dropped first two and then one A/S bomb, one of them exploding just five yards off the port beam. The damaged engine then forced the pilot to return to base. Strafing had killed one crewman and wounded two others on U-755, which was forced to return to port due to heavy damages but was sunk in another air attack only 2 days later.

U 758, 8 Jun 1943
At 19.18 hours, the boat was attacked by carrier aircraft (VC-9 USN) from USS Bogue escorting the convoy GUS-9 south of the Azores. U-758 had just spotted and reported the convoy when they were attacked by an Avenger, piloted by Lt(jg) L.S. Bailliett. Its four depth charges exploded astern, but the boat stayed at the surface and put up a heavy AA barrage. After 30 minutes a second Avenger, piloted by Lt(jg) W.S. Fowler, attacked with three depth charges despite of being heavily damaged by AA fire during the approach. AA hits wounded a crewman and damaged the engine, the starboard wing and the bomb bay, forcing the pilot to return to the carrier. Then a third Avenger, piloted by Lt(jg) F.D. Fodge, attacked assisted by a strafing run from a Wildcat piloted by Lt(jg) P. Perabo. The boat crash-dived before the depth charges were dropped and evaded a hunt by USS Clemson.

The Germans reported beating off an attack by 8 carrier aircraft (identified as Martlet, Lysander and Mustang) with the new powerful quadruple AA gun and claimed one shot down and four damaged. U-758 sustained only minor damages, but 7 men were wounded in the attacks, so the boat had to abort its patrol.

U 760, 26 Feb 1943
A man from U-760 was killed during an air attack in Wilhelmshaven. [Obermaschinist Jakob Ippendorf]

U 760, 12 Aug 1943
During an air attack in the North Atlantic one man was lost. [Matrosenenobergefreiter Günter Werner]. The boat was damaged and had to abort its patrol.

U 762, 8 Oct 1943
A British B-24 Liberator aircraft (Sqdn 120, pilot Bryan W. Turnbull) attacked the boat and drove her under. A destroyer joined the attack but the boat escaped although 2 men were wounded and a diesel engine was damaged.

U 764, 23 May 1944
The boat was attacked by an enemy aircraft and damaged slightly. One crew member was wounded.

U 801, 16 Mar 1944
The boat was attacked by an Avenger aircraft from the escort carrier USS Block Island in the Mid Atlantic. One man died and 9 men were wounded. The U-boat was sunk the next day.

U 802, 11 Apr 1944
On U-802 an accident required the amputation of a crew member's finger.

U 803, 11 Apr 1944
During an air raid on Stettin 5 men from the boat were killed.

U 804, 16 Jun 1944
The boat was attacked by a Norwegian Mosquito aircraft (Sqdn 333/R). 8 men were wounded but the boat was not seriously damaged.

U 804, 16 Jun 1944
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down:
The boat was attacked by a Norwegian Mosquito aircraft (Sqdn 333/R, crew Jacob M. Jacobsen and Per C. Hansen).

8 men from U-804 were wounded in the action. The air crew was saved by U-1000 on 18 June and taken to Norway for questioning.

U 845, 14 Feb 1944
A British B-24 Liberator aircraft (Sqdn 10, pilot A. P. V. Cheater) attacked the boat with 8 depth charges. One man died and another was wounded.

U 847, 26 Jan 1943
During training in Wesermünde an accident occured while the machine gun was being fired. One crewmember died, one was heavily wounded.

U 853, 17 Jun 1944
Two Wildcat aircraft from the US escort carrier USS Croatan made repeated strafing attacks on U-853, about 30 miles south of the carrier. The boat dived and escaped before the Avengers arrived, but had to abort the patrol due to the many casualties: 2 men were killed and 12 wounded [Bootsmann Kurt Schweichler, Maschinengefreiter Karl-Heinz Löffler]

U 859, 5 Jul 1944
One man was killed and three wounded, when the boat was attacked by a Catalina (RAF 262 Sqd/L) in the Indian Ocean. [Matrosenobergefreiter Hans Boldt]

U 860, 21 Apr 1944
2 men died when they were stranded topside during an emergency dive to avoid an incoming aircraft. [Matrosengefreiter Alfons Robalewsky, Bootsmaat Rudolf Versic]

U 873, 29 Jul 1944
During an air raid on Bremen, Germany on 29 July the boat was damaged and 4 men were wounded. One of them died in December 1944. [Matrosenhauptgefreiter Fritz Grusa]

U 873, 19 May 1945
Its former commander, Kptlt. Friedrich Steinhoff, committed suicide while being kept in a street prison in Boston, USA instead of a POW camp.

U 921, 24 May 1944
A Canadian Sunderland aircraft (Sqdn 422/R) attacked the boat. The aircraft was shot down but not before wounding 3 men, including the Commander, Oblt. Wolfgang Leu. As the boat crash dived Leu got both his wounded men down but did not manage to get down into the tower himself. He slammed the hatch down as the boat dove and was drowned. The boat reached Trondheim, Norway under the command of the I WO on the 26th. (An American submarine commander received the Medal of Honor for the very same act in the Pacific).

U 953, 9 Jul 1943
The boat was attacked by an aircraft on 9 July killing one and wounding two of its crew. [Matrose I Egon Döring]

U 957, 20 Mar 1943
The commander was lost during a diving accident in the Baltic Sea. [Oberleutnant zur See Franz Saar (see right)]

U 958, 26 May 1944
2 Mosquito aircraft (RAF 333/N/E) attacked the boat killing 1 and wounding 2 men. [Maschinenobergefreiter Herbert Frank]

U 960, 27 Mar 1944
14 men from the boat were wounded during a battle with 2 Mosquito aircraft (RAF Sqdn 618/L/I). The boat entered port at La Pallice, France the same day.

U 963, 26 Mar 1944
While out off Brest, France the boat was attacked by an unknown allied aircraft and 9 of its crew were wounded - two of them badly. The boat returned to port the next day.

U 963, 12 Aug 1944
One man was killed during an air attack on the base at Brest, France and another man was so severely wounded that he died a day later. [Bootsmaat Albrecht Sekula, Maschinenobergefreiter Helmut Laskosky]

U 963, 21 Aug 1944
During a crash dive at night (0017hrs) in the Bay of Biscay a man was lost overboard. [Bootsmaat Hans Reiter]

U 965, 6 Feb 1944
The IWO fell overboard and drowned. [Leutnant zur See Gustav-Günther Schoop]

U 965, 20 Jul 1944
The boat was attacked by an aircraft, 1 man was killed and 1 wounded. [Matrosenhauptgefreiter Willibald Niederle]

U 965, 22 Aug 1944
The boat was attacked by two Martlet aircraft (Wilcats), 3 men were killed and 8 wounded. [Bootsmaat Kurt Pesch, Matrosengefreiter Heinz Schade, Maschinengefreiter Thiel]

U 967, 12 Oct 1943
The boat lost a man overboard on 12 October in the North Atlantic. [Mechnikergfreiter Hans Brackert]

U 968, 19 Jul 1944
At 11.40 hours, the boat was attacked twice with depth charges by a British Liberator aircraft (RAF Sqdn 86/R, pilot F/L W.F.J. Harwood) and only slightly damaged, but strafing killed one AA gunner and wounded six more [Bootsmaat Werner Hahne]. The boat returned to base for repairs and re-manning.

U 984, 22 Jan 1944
One crewmember was washed overboard in the North Atlantic. [Maschinenobergefreiter Hermann Keller]

U 989, 7 Jun 1944
A British Leigh-light equipped Wellington aircraft (Sqdn 179, pilot W. J. Hill) attacked the boat causing damages. A B-24 Liberator and flight of Mosquito aircraft also took place in the attacks which wounded the U-boat commander and forced the boat to return to base.

U 993, 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]

U 993, 12 Sep 1944
One man from the boat died of jaundice in the North Atlantic. [Matrosenobergfreiter Wilhelm Lucksnat]

U 994, 17 Jul 1944
The boat was attacked by a Norwegian Mosquito aircraft (Sqdn 333/L), the boat was damaged and 5 men were wounded. The boat reached Bergen the same day.

U 995, 21 May 1944
A Canadian Sunderland aircraft (Sqdn OTU 4/S) attacked the boat wounding 5 men.

U 997, 24 Feb 1945
The boat lost a man overboard in the Arctic Sea. [Bootsmaat Erich Sachse]

U 1003, 7 Feb 1944
During the boat's trials in the Baltic near Hela one man died when he fell overboard while transferring to an outpost boat (V-Boot). [Funkgefreiter Werner Guhl]

U 1014, 16 Sep 1944
The boat suffered two crewmen lost and three wounded in a Soviet air attack on the harbour of Libau in the Baltic Sea.

U 1018, 27 Jun 1944
An accident took place during U-1018´s work-up period in the Baltic on 17 June which killed 1 man and wounded 2 from its crew. [Obersteuermann Walter Nellsen]

U 1061, 11 Apr 1944
On the U-1061 a lookout broke his leg during heavy weather.

U 1169, 23 Apr 1944
During the Baltic exercises the boat lost one man off Pillau. [Matrosengefreiter Alfred Friedl]

U 1169, 11 Oct 1944
During a torpedo explosion on board the boat 2 men were killed and 1 more wounded.

U 1192, 17 May 1944
A crew member on U-1192 was wounded when the 3,7 cm anti-aircraft gun exploded.

U 1203, 29 May 1944
During the Baltic exercises the boat lost one man after crash diving north of Danzig. [Maschinengefreiter Johann Igel]

U 1221, 25 Sep 1944
One man was lost overboard from the boat. It seems that he jumped overboard in the North Atlantic after a punishment for sleeping on the watch. [Matrosengefreiter Emil-Heinz Motyl]

U 1228, 18 Sep 1944
After being damaged by a British B-24 Liberator (Sqdn 224/R, pilot P. M. Hill) the boat suffered Schnorchel damage which resulted in a CO₂ poisoning of its crew. One man died. [Matrosenobergefreiter Matthias Mittler]

U 1302, 17 Sep 1944
One crewmember took his own life with a pistol in the port of Gotenhafen.

U 2502, 8 Apr 1945
The commander, Kptlt. d. Res Gert Mannesmann, died during an air raid on Hamburg.

U 2503, 3 May 1945
During an attack from a Beaufighter aircraft on 3 May a rocket penetrated into the control room killing the commander and 12 of his men. She was scuttled the next day.

U 2524, 3 May 1945
British Beaufighters from Squadrons 236 and 254 attacked the boat killing 1 man and damaging the boat. The boat was scuttled later that day. The LI refused to leave the boat and perished with it. [Oberleutnant(Ing) Werner Braun]

U 2539, 21 Apr 1945
During an air raid on Kiel the commander, Oblt. Erich Jewinski, was killed.

U 3012, 28 Apr 1945
After a misfiring of the 2cm AA machine gun on 28 April the I WO Oberleutnant zur See Wolfgang Schlett was killed instantly. The commander of the boat, Kapitänleutnant Hans Bungards, was heavily wounded and died next night in the Navy hospital at Travemünde.

U 3507, 21 Jan 1945
One man died in an accident. [Maschinengefreiter Rudi Grötzschel]

Total numer of losses:
599 men in 242 incidents (242 dead and 357 wounded)