U-1169

Type

VIIC/41

 
Ordered2 Apr 1942
Laid down 9 Apr 1943 Danziger Werft AG, Danzig (werk 141)
Launched2 Oct 1943
Commissioned9 Feb 1944Oblt. Heinz Goldbeck
Commanders
9 Feb 1944 - 29 Mar 1945  Oblt. Heinz Goldbeck
Career1 patrol 9 Feb 1944 - 31 Jan 1945  8. Flottille (training)
1 Feb 1945 - 29 Mar 1945  11. Flottille (front boat)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Sunk 29 March, 1945 in the English Channel south of Lizard Point, in position 49.58N, 05.25W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Duckworth. 49 dead (all hands lost).

View the 1 war patrol

Previously recorded fate
(Last revised by Axel Niestlé during January 1991. More on revised fates.

The mine explosion observed from the A/S trawler HMT Willow on 5 April in position 52.03N, 05.53W, and formerly credited for the loss of U-1169 was actually U-242's last dying gasp.

Schnorchel-fitted U-boat
This boat was fitted with a Schnorchel underwater-breathing apparatus and sailed equipped with it in February 1945 but it was of course installed prior to that date. Read more about the Schnorchel and see list of fitted boats.

Men lost from the boat

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

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

  Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -



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.
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.