Type | IXC | ||||||||||||||||
| Ordered | 7 Aug 1939 | ||||||||||||||||
| Laid down | 5 Apr 1940 | AG Weser, Bremen (werk 986) | |||||||||||||||
| Launched | 30 Oct 1940 | ||||||||||||||||
| Commissioned | 22 Jan 1941 | Kptlt. Heinrich Bleichrodt (Oak Leaves) | |||||||||||||||
| Commanders |
| ||||||||||||||||
| Career 7 patrols |
| ||||||||||||||||
| Successes | 13 ships sunk, total tonnage 72,138 GRT 5 ships damaged, total tonnage 29,726 GRT | ||||||||||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 16 Jul 1943 in the Sargasso Sea, in position 30.05N, 44.17W, by depth charges from an Avenger aircraft of the US escort carrier USS Core (VC-13). 48 dead and 3 survivors. | ||||||||||||||||
| Loss position | |||||||||||||||||
Wolfpack operations
U-67 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Seeräuber (14 Dec 1941 - 23 Dec 1941)
Wohlgemut (12 Mar 1943 - 22 Mar 1943)
Seeräuber (25 Mar 1943 - 30 Mar 1943)
Attacks on this boat
11 Dec 1941
The boat was depth charged by the British corvette HMS Bluebell. This attack was thought to have sunk U-208 but instead slightly damaged U-67. (Sources: FDS/NHB)
30 Mar 1942
A British submarine fired torpedoes at U-67 which missed by 150m.
28 Mar 1943
During an attack by Wolfpack Seeräuber (Pirate) on small convoy RS-3, in which three ships were sunk, three U-boats (of eight) were seriously damaged, one of which was U-67, hit by air-launched torpedoes. (Sources: Blair, vol 2, page 204)
3 recorded attacks on this boat.
Men lost from the boat
27 Oct 1942
After an explosion during torpedo loading on the U-67 one man was killed. [Matrosenobergefreiter Heinz Hartmann]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
U-boat Emblems
We have 2 emblem entry for this boat! See the emblem page for this boat or view each one below.
 |  |
Media links
|
|
|
|
|
|
There was another U-67 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 15 May 1915 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 4 Aug 1915. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about the U 67 during WWI.