U-290

Type

VIIC

Ordered

5 Jun 1941

Laid down

12 Oct 1942

Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft, Bremen-Vegesack (werk 55)

Launched

16 Jun 1943

Commissioned

24 Jul 1943

Oblt. Hartmut Strenger

Commanders

24 Jul 1943 - 26 Dec 1943	Kptlt. Hartmut Strenger
27 Dec 1943 - Apr, 1945	Oblt. Helmut Herglotz
Apr, 1945 - 4 May 1945	Oblt. Heinz Baum

Career

3 patrols

24 Jul 1943 - 30 Apr 1944  8. Flottille (training)
1 May 1944 - 31 Jul 1944  6. Flottille (front boat)
1 Aug 1944 - 27 Aug 1944  11. Flottille (front boat)
28 Aug 1944 - 15 Feb 1945  8. Flottille (front boat)
16 Feb 1945 - 3 May 1945  4. Flottille (training)

Successes

No ships sunk or damaged

Fate

Scuttled in May, 1945 in Kupfermühlen Bay, Flensburg Fjord.

View the 3 war patrols

Attacks on this boat

14 Jun 1944
A Norwegian Mosquito aircraft (Sqdn 333/H, pilots Erling U. Johansen and Lauritz Humlen) damaged the boat and wounded 8 of its crew. Two days later the boat arrived at its Bergen, Norway base.

1 recorded attack on this boat.

Men lost from the boat

14 Jun 1944
A Norwegian Mosquito aircraft (Sqdn 333/H) damaged the boat and wounded 8 of its crew. Two days later the boat arrived at its Bergen, Norway base.

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