List of all U-boats

U-348

Type

VIIC

Ordered

10 Apr 1941

Laid down

17 Nov 1942

Nordseewerke, Emden (werk 220)

Launched

25 Jun 1943

Commissioned

10 Aug 1943

Oblt. Hans-Norbert Schunck *

Commanders

Jul, 1943	-	Aug, 1943	Oblt. Hans-Joachim Förster (Knights Cross)
10 Aug 1943	-	30 Mar 1945	Oblt. Hans-Norbert Schunck
18 Jun 1944	-	21 Jun 1944	Oblt. Sigurd Seeger
26 Jun 1944	-	1 Jul 1944	Kptlt. Kurt-Heinz Nicolay

Career
6 patrols

10 Aug 1943	-	31 Mar 1944	8. Flottille (training)
1 Apr 1944	-	11 Jul 1944	9. Flottille (active service)
12 Jul 1944	-	15 Feb 1945	8. Flottille (active service)
16 Feb 1945	-	30 Mar 1945	5. Flottille (training)

Successes

No ships sunk or damaged

Fate

Sunk on 30 March 1945 inside pontoon dock off U-boat pen Fink II at Hamburg-Finkenwerder, in position 53.32,5N, 09.51,4E, by bombs during US air raid (8th AF). 2 dead, unknown number of survivors.

Loss position

View the 6 war patrols

General notes on this boat

* From June to Aug 1943 Oblt. Hans-Joachim Förster served as Baubelehrungs commander in the last days before the boat was commissioned.

Men lost from the boat

6 May 1944
Two men stepped on a land mine near Stavanger, Norway. One was killed, the other wounded. The boat departed for its second patrol from Bergen on the 20th. [Bootsmaat Günter Labahn]

28 Jan 1945
One man drowned in a diving accident near Gotenhafen, while checking the damage sustained by U-348 after it ran aground near Hela the day before. [Matrose Hermann Witthöft]

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