U-351

Type

VIIC

Ordered

9 Oct 1939

Laid down

4 Mar 1940

Flensburger Schiffsbau-Ges, Flensburg (werk 470)

Launched

27 Mar 1941

Commissioned

20 Jun 1941

Oblt. Karl Hause

Commanders

20 Jun 1941	-	14 Dec 1941	Oblt. Karl Hause
15 Dec 1941	-	24 Aug 1942	Oblt. Günther Rosenberg
25 Aug 1942	-	25 May 1943	Oblt. Eberhard Zimmermann
26 May 1943	-	5 Oct 1943	Oblt. Götz Roth
13 Dec 1943	-	30 Jun 1944	Oblt. Helmut Wicke
1 Jul 1944	-	19 Mar 1945	Oblt. Hans-Jürgen Schley
20 Mar 1945	-	5 May 1945	Oblt. Hugo Strehl

Career
No patrols

20 Jun 1941	-	31 Mar 1942	26. Flottille (training)
1 Apr 1942	-	30 Jun 1944	24. Flottille (training)
1 Jul 1944	-	28 Feb 1945	22. Flottille (school boat)
1 Mar 1945	-	5 May 1945	4. Flottille (training)

Successes

No ships sunk or damaged

Fate

Scuttled on 5 May 1945 in Hörup Haff, in position 54.53N, 09.50E. Wreck broken up in 1948.

Final location

Attacks on this boat and other events

9 Mar 1945
U-351 was only limitedly able to dive after being slightly damaged by bombs during a Soviet air raid on Pillau, where it was used as electricity generation plant. Three crew members were killed, one seriously (who later died in a field hospital) and three lightly wounded. [Matrosenobergefreiter Karl-Heinz Kober (died on 11 March), Matrosenobergefreiter Franz Anton Xaver Lummer, Maschinenmaat Herbert Schwichtel, Matrosengefreiter Gottfried Storm]

1 recorded attack on this boat.