List of all U-boats
U-1221
Type | IXC/40 | |||||||||||||
| Ordered | 25 Aug 1941 | |||||||||||||
| Laid down | 28 Oct 1942 | Deutsche Werft AG, Hamburg (werk 384) | ||||||||||||
| Launched | 26 May 1943 | |||||||||||||
| Commissioned | 11 Aug 1943 | Oblt. Karl Kölzer | ||||||||||||
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| Career 1 patrol |
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| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | |||||||||||||
| Fate | Sunk on 3 April, 1945 at Kiel Buoy 'A 7' by bombs from US aircraft (8th USAAF). 7 dead and 11 survivors. | |||||||||||||
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Men lost from the boat
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]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
U-boat Emblems
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