Klaus Bargsten
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 36)
| Successes 3 ships sunk for a total of 19,551 GRT 1 auxiliary warship sunk for a total of 750 GRT 1 warship sunk for a total of 1,870 tons |
| Born | 31 Oct 1911 | Bad Oldesloe | |
| Died | 13 Aug 2000 | (88) |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
| U-563 | 27 Mar 1941 | 15 Mar 1942 | 4 patrols (90 days) |
| U-521 | 3 Jun 1942 | 2 Jun 1943 | 3 patrols (172 days) |
Personal information
Klaus Bargsten began his naval career in April 1936. Previous to this he had been in the merchant navy. He joined the U-boat force in April 1939. After a short time on U-6, he transferred to U-99 and accompanied the boat on all her successful patrols except the last one under Kptlt. Otto Kretschmer.
He left U-99 in January 1941 and in March commissioned U-563. On his second patrol he sank the British destroyer HMS Cossack (1,960 tons). After the third patrol he left the boat and three months later commissioned U-521. This boat was sunk on 2 June, 1943 by the US sub chaser PC 565 100 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras. Kptlt. Bargsten was the only survivor and spent more than three years in Allied captivity.
Patrol info for Klaus Bargsten
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-563 | 10 Jul 1941 | Kiel | 10 Jul 1941 | Helsingör | 1 days | ||
| 2. | U-563 | 27 Jul 1941 | Helsingör | 28 Jul 1941 | Bergen | 2 days | ||
| 3. | U-563 | 31 Jul 1941 | Bergen | 10 Sep 1941 | Brest | Patrol 1, | 42 days | |
| 4. | U-563 | 4 Oct 1941 | Brest | 1 Nov 1941 | Brest | Patrol 2, | 29 days | |
| 5. | U-563 | 29 Nov 1941 | Brest | 3 Dec 1941 | Lorient | Patrol 3, | 5 days | |
| 6. | U-563 | 21 Jan 1942 | Lorient | 3 Feb 1942 | Bergen | Patrol 4, | 14 days | |
| 7. | U-563 | 7 Feb 1942 | Bergen | 11 Feb 1942 | Hamburg | 5 days | ||
| 8. | U-521 | 3 Oct 1942 | Kiel | 4 Oct 1942 | Kristiansand | 2 days | ||
| 9. | U-521 | 6 Oct 1942 | Kristiansand | 8 Dec 1942 | Lorient | Patrol 5, | 64 days | |
| 10. | U-521 | 7 Jan 1943 | Lorient | 26 Mar 1943 | Lorient | Patrol 6, | 79 days | |
| 11. | U-521 | 5 May 1943 | Lorient | 2 Jun 1943 | Sunk | Patrol 7, | 29 days | |
| 7 patrols, 262 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Klaus Bargsten
| Date | U-boat | Commander | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
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| 24 Oct 1941 | U-563 | Klaus Bargsten |  | HMS Cossack (G 03) | 1,870 |  | br | HG-75 |
| 2 Nov 1942 | U-521 | Klaus Bargsten | | Hartington | 5,496 | | br | SC-107 |
| 3 Nov 1942 | U-521 | Klaus Bargsten | Hahira | 6,855 |  | am | SC-107 | |
| 8 Feb 1943 | U-521 | Klaus Bargsten | HMS Bredon (T 223) | 750 | | br | Gibr-2 | |
| 18 Mar 1943 | U-521 | Klaus Bargsten | | Molly Pitcher | 7,200 | | am | UGS-6 |
| 22,171 | ||||||||
5 ships sunk (22,171 tons). Legend | ||||||||
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