U-1007

Type

VIIC/41

Ordered

23 Mar, 1942

Laid down

15 Feb, 1943

Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 207)

Launched

8 Dec, 1943

Commissioned

18 Jan, 1944

Kptlt. Hans Hornkohl

Commanders

18 Jan, 1944 - 9 Jul, 1944	Kptlt. Hans Hornkohl
3 Jul, 1944 - 7 Jul, 1944	Leonhard Klingspor
10 Jul, 1944 - Feb, 1945	Oblt. Helmut Wicke
Feb, 1945 - Apr, 1945	Oblt. Karl-Heinz Raabe
Apr, 1945 - 2 May, 1945	Kptlt. Ernst von Witzendorff

Career

1 patrol

18 Jan, 1944 - 31 May, 1944  31. Flottille (training)
1 Jun, 1944 - 31 Jul, 1944  1. Flottille (front boat)
1 Aug, 1944 - 28 Feb, 1945  24. Flottille (training)
1 Mar, 1945 - 2 May, 1945  31. Flottille (training)

Successes

No ships sunk or damaged

Fate

Scuttled on 2 May, 1945 near Lübeck in position 53.54N, 10.51E, after damages by rockets from 4 British Typhoon aircraft (2nd Tactical Air Force, Sqdn 245). 2 dead, unknown number of survivors.

View the 1 war patrol

U-1007 was strafed and attacked with rockets by four Typhoon aircraft (RAF Sqdn 245, pilots F/Lt F.S. Murphy, F/O F.J. Pearson, W/O K.D. Woddan and F/Sgt C.M. Brocklehurst) in the Trave River north of Lübeck. One man was killed and another later died of wounds in a hospital. The badly damaged boat was beached and scuttled. In May 1946 the wreck was raised and broken up.

Men lost from U-boats

Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-1007 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.