U-289

Type

VIIC

 
Ordered5 Jun 1941
Laid down 12 Sep 1942 Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft, Bremen-Vegesack (werk 54)
Launched25 May 1943
Commissioned10 Jul 1943Kptlt. Alexander Hellwig
Commanders
10 Jul 1943 - 31 May 1944  Kptlt. Alexander Hellwig
Career2 patrols 10 Jul 1943 - 31 Mar 1944  8. Flottille (training)
1 Apr 1944 - 1 May 1944  3. Flottille (front boat)
1 May 1944 - 31 May 1944  13. Flottille (front boat)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Sunk 31 May, 1944 in the Barents Sea south-west of Bear Island, Norway, in position 73.32N, 00.28E, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Milne. 51 dead (all hands lost).

View the 2 war patrols

General notes on this boat

25 Apr 1944. On 25 April, 1944 this boat landed espionage agents Sverrir Matthiasson and Magnus Guðbjörnsson in Iceland.

Men lost from U-boats

Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-289 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.



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.