U-967

Type

VIIC

 
Ordered5 Jun 1941
Laid down 16 May 1942 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 167)
Launched4 Feb 1943
Commissioned11 Mar 1943Ltnt. Herbert Loeder
Commanders
11 Mar 1943 - Apr, 1944  Oblt. Herbert Loeder
Apr, 1944 - 1 Jul 1944  KrvKpt. Albrecht Brandi (Knights Cross)
2 Jul 1944 - 11 Aug 1944  Oblt. Heinz-Eugen Eberbach
Career3 patrols 11 Mar 1943 - 30 Sep 1943  5. Flottille (training)
1 Oct 1943 - 29 Feb 1944  6. Flottille (front boat)
1 Mar 1944 - 11 Aug 1944  29. Flottille (front boat)
Successes1 warship sunk for a total of 1,300 tons
Fate

Scuttled on 11 Aug, 1944 in Toulon. 2 dead, unknown number of survivors.

See the 1 ships hit by U-967 - View the 3 war patrols

Attacks on this boat

21 Nov 1943
At 06.12 hours the boat fought off a Halifax aircraft with AA fire. This was probably a Liberator (53 Sqdn RAF/A, pilot W/C H.R.A. Edwards, AFC) which escorted the convoy SL-139 and could not attack because its Leigh Light failed. (Sources: Franks/Zimmerman)

30 Nov 1943
While inbound an unknown aircraft attacked the boat which again escpaed unharmed. The boat put into St. Nazaire the next day. (Sources: Blair, vol 2, page 441)

2 recorded attacks on this boat.

Men lost from the boat

12 Oct 1943
The boat lost a man overboard on 12 October in the North Atlantic. [Mechnikergfreiter Hans Brackert]

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



U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2

Wynn, Kenneth


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Books dealing with this subject include:

German U-Boat Losses During World War II. Niestle, Axel, 1998.
Hitler's U-boat War. Blair, Clay, 1996.
Hitler's U-boat War, Vol II. Blair, Clay, 1998.
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1. Wynn, Kenneth, 1998.
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2. Wynn, Kenneth, 1998.