List of all U-boats

U-476

Type

VIIC

 
Ordered10 Apr 1941
Laid down19 Sep 1942 Deutsche Werke AG, Kiel (werk 307)
Launched5 Jun 1943
Commissioned28 Jul 1943Oblt. Otto Niethmann
Commanders
28 Jul 1943 - 25 May 1944  Oblt. Otto Niethmann
Career
1 patrol
28 Jul 1943-31 Mar 1944  5. Flottille (training)
1 Apr 1944-25 May 1944  3. Flottille (active service)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Scuttled at 0102hrs on 25 May 1944 in the Norwegian Sea north-west of Trondheim, Norway, in position 65.08N, 04.53E, by a torpedo from U-990 after being badly damaged by depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft (210 Sqn RAF/V) on 24 May 1944. 34 dead and 21 survivors.

Loss position

View the 1 war patrol

Attacks on this boat and other events

24 May 1944
Following crippling damage from an attack by a British Catalina flying boat (210 Sqn RAF/V) at 07.18 hrs on this day, the boat was scuttled on 25 May. U-990 saved the commander and 20 men of the crew, but 34 went down with the boat due to bad weather that made the rescue operation difficult. U-990 was then herself sunk by a B-24 Liberator aircraft on 25 May. Three men from U-476 were lost.

1 recorded attack on this boat.

General notes on this boat

25 May 1944. U-990 saved 21 men from U-476, but was herself sunk a few hours later. 34 men from U-476 died (31 on U-476 and 3 on U-990).

Men lost from the boat

24 May 1944
Following crippling damage from an attack by a British Catalina flying boat (210 Sqn RAF/V) at 07.18 hrs on this day, the boat was scuttled on 25 May. U-990 saved the commander and 20 men of the crew, but 34 went down with the boat due to bad weather that made the rescue operation difficult. U-990 was then herself sunk by a B-24 Liberator aircraft on 25 May. Three men from U-476 were lost.

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


Media links


U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1

Wynn, Kenneth


Hitler's U-boat War, Vol II

Blair, Clay


German U-Boat Losses During World War II

Niestle, Axel




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