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Non-Commissioned U-boats

U-1176

This boat was not commissioned into the Kriegsmarine

However she had been ordered and was, at least at one time, planned for commission.

U-boat

U-1176

TypeVIIC/41
Cancelled23 Sep 1944
Suspended
Launched6 Nov 1943
Laid down29 Jul 1943
Ordered16 Jul 1942
ShipyardDanziger Werft, Danzig
Werk148
 

Contract cancelled 23 Sep 44 and construction abandoned
Laid-up incomplete in Danzig
Captured incomplete by Soviet forces on 30 Mar 45

Schichau Shipyard Hull No: G-148
Launched at Danzig in mid-1945
Towed to Libau (Latvia)
Inspected by TNC in Libau on 8 Oct 45 - still incomplete and with jammed rudder
Defined in TNC Report on 6 Dec 45 as an “unallocated submarine afloat”
Probably moved to Kronstadt in late 1945/early 1946
No evidence of completion or use
Final fate unknown, probably scrapped in 1947/48


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