U-377

Type

Sunk on 17 January 1944 in the North Atlantic south-west of Ireland, in position 49.39N, 20.10W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Wanderer and the British frigate HMS Glenarm. 52 dead (all hands lost). (Axel Niestlé, September 2003).

Loss position

View the 11 war patrols

The boat is often listed as sunk by its own acoustic (T5) torpedo on 15 January. This is for example documented in Showell's U-boat Command and the Battle of the Atlantic. The author's father was lost on that boat and thus he has researched its fate considerably. The Kriegsmarine received at least two unsigned but coded emergency messages around this time but at least one of them seems to have been from U-305.

Previously recorded fate

Sunk on 15 Jan, 1944 in the North Atlantic, in approximate position 46N, 20W, by one of its circling torpedoes. (Dr. Axel Niestlé, 1998)
Sunk 15 Jan, 1944 in the Atlantic by rockets and depth charges from aircraft of the US escort Carrier USS Santee.
(Postwar assessment)

Wolfpack operations

U-377 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
   Aufnahme (7 Mar 1942 - 11 Mar 1942)
   Blücher (11 Mar 1942 - 18 Mar 1942)
   Bums (6 Apr 1942 - 14 Apr 1942)
   Blutrausch (15 Apr 1942 - 17 Apr 1942)
   Trägertod (12 Sep 1942 - 21 Sep 1942)
   Ritter (11 Feb 1943 - 21 Feb 1943)
   Neptun (22 Feb 1943 - 2 Mar 1943)
   Amsel (22 Apr 1943 - 3 May 1943)
   Amsel 2 (3 May 1943 - 6 May 1943)
   Elbe (7 May 1943 - 10 May 1943)
   Elbe 2 (10 May 1943 - 14 May 1943)
   Leuthen (15 Sep 1943 - 22 Sep 1943)
   Borkum (24 Dec 1943 - 3 Jan 1944)
   Borkum 3 (3 Jan 1944 - 13 Jan 1944)
   Rügen (13 Jan 1944 - 17 Jan 1944)

Attacks on this boat and other events

22 Sep 1943
On 22 Sept a British B-24 Liberator (Sqdn 10) attacked U-377, wounding the commander. The boat had to return to port under the command of the I WO.

U-377 on arrival at Brest. The wounded commander, Oblt.z.S. Kluth is wearing a white cap, standing to the left of the flotilla commander

1 recorded attack on this boat.

Men lost from the boat

22 Sep 1943
On 22 Sept a British B-24 Liberator (Sqdn 10) attacked U-377, wounding the commander. The boat had to return to port under the command of the I WO.