List of all U-boats

U-249

Type

VIIC

 
Ordered5 Jun 1941
Laid down23 Jan 1943 F. Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel (werk 683)
Launched23 Oct 1943
Commissioned20 Nov 1943Oblt. Rolf Lindschau
Commanders
20 Nov 1943 - 16 Jul 1944  Oblt. (R) Rolf Lindschau
17 Jul 1944 - 10 May 1945   Uwe Kock
Career
2 patrols
20 Nov 1943-1 Jan 1945  5. Flottille (training)
1 Jan 1945-8 May 1945  5. Flottille (active service)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Surrendered on 10 May 1945 at Portland, UK (Waller & Niestlé, 2010).

Commissioned as research vessel N 85 in the Royal Navy on 29 May 1945, later transferred to Loch Ryan, Scotland.

Operation Deadlight (post-war Allied operation, info)
Sunk on 13 Dec, 1945 in position 56.10N, 10.05W

Final location

View the 2 war patrols

Surrender: The boat surfaced on 9 May 1945 and, flying the required black flag, signalled its surrender to a PB4Y-1 Liberator aircraft of the Fleet Air Wing of the USN based at Dunkeswell, Devon. U-249 was then escorted to Portland where it surrendered as first U-boat in a British harbor.

Attacks on this boat and other events

24 Mar 1945
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down: British Mosquito FB Mk.VI HR434 (235 Sqn RAF/Q, pilot F/Lt J.R. Williams)

1324hrs, about 10 miles north-west of Fedje, Norway: the boat was attacked by a Mosquito on a reconnaisance patrol between Utsira and Utvaer, but managed to shoot it down by AA fire. The navigator was lost and the pilot rescued by U-249 which transferred him to the Vorpostenboot V 1703 Unitas 5 before continuing its patrol. The pilot was landed at Bergen and handed over to the local authorities, who executed him.

1 recorded attack on this boat.

Schnorchel-fitted U-boat

This boat was fitted with a Schnorchel underwater-breathing apparatus in December 1944.

Read more about the Schnorchel and see list of fitted boats.

Men lost from the boat

3 Oct 1944
A crew member was washed overboard during exercises off Danzig at 1410hrs. He was rescued and given artificial respiration, but could not be revived. [Matrosenobergefreiter Franz Albrecht]

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

U-boat Emblems

We have 3 emblem entries for this boat. See the emblem page for this boat or view emblems individually below.


Aircraft

U-boat on top of World

Knight on yellow Shield

Media links


The Grey Wolves of Eriboll

David M. Hird


German U-Boat Losses During World War II

Niestle, Axel


The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament, 1942-1947

Madsen, Chris


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U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1

Wynn, Kenneth


Hitler's U-boat War, Vol II

Blair, Clay




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