U-995
Type | VIIC/41 | |||||
| Ordered | 14 Oct, 1941 | |||||
| Laid down | 25 Nov, 1942 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 195) | ||||
| Launched | 22 Jul, 1943 | |||||
| Commissioned | 16 Sep, 1943 | Oblt. Walter Köhntopp | ||||
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| Career | 9 patrols | 16 Sep, 1943 - 31 May, 1944 5. Flottille (training) 1 Jun, 1944 - 28 Feb, 1945 13. Flottille (front boat) 1 Mar, 1945 - 8 May, 1945 14. Flottille (front boat) | ||||
| Successes | 3 ships sunk for a total of 1.560 GRT 1 auxiliary warship sunk for a total of 633 GRT 1 warship sunk for a total of 105 tons 1 ship a total loss for a total of 7.176 GRT | |||||
| Fate | Stricken at Trondheim, Norway on 8 May, 1945. Surrendered to Britain and then transferred to Norway in Oct 1948. | |||||
See the 6 ships hit by U-995 - View the 9 war patrols
Became the Norwegian submarine Kaura on 1 Dec, 1952. Stricken in 1965. Returned to Germany where she became a museum ship in Oct 1971.
Attacks on this boat
21 May, 1944
A Canadian Sunderland aircraft (Sqdn OTU 4/S) attacked the boat wounding 5 men.
1 recorded attacks on this boat.
General notes on this boat
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Men lost from the boat
21 May, 1944
A Canadian Sunderland aircraft (Sqdn OTU 4/S) attacked the boat wounding 5 men.
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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Books dealing with this subject include: German U-Boat Losses During World War II, Niestle, Axel, 1998  Die Männer von U-995, Hess, Hans-Georg, 1987 U-995, Wetzel, Eckard, 1995 U-Boat Adventures, Wiggins, Melanie, 1999 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 |