The Men - The Commander listing

Gerd Schreiber

Korvettenkapitän (Crew 31)

Successes
8 ships sunk for a total of 28.415 GRT
4 ships damaged for a total of 27.916 GRT

Born

2 Apr, 1912

Hirschberg, Silesia

U-boat Commands

U-3	3 Jan, 1940	-	28 Jul, 1940	2 patrols (22 days)
U-95	31 Aug, 1940	-	28 Nov, 1941	7 patrols (184 days)

Personal information

Gerd Schreiber survived the loss of this boat, U-95, along with 11 of his men. They were rescued by the attacker, the Dutch submarine O-21, and sent to POW camps Initially Schreiber was in Gibraltar where he managed to escape his British captors along with Hans Ey of U-433. They intended to flee to Spain and then to Germany but they were recaptured shortly after their escape and sent to London. (Blair, Clay. (1996). Hitler's Uboat War, vol 1.)

Patrol info

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-3	16 Mar, 1940	Kiel	29 Mar, 1940	Wilhelmshaven	Patrol,	14 days
2.	U-3	12 Apr, 1940	Wilhelmshaven	19 Apr, 1940	Wilhelmshaven	Patrol,	8 days
3.	U-95	20 Nov, 1940	Kiel	6 Dec, 1940	Lorient	Patrol,	17 days
4.	U-95	16 Dec, 1940	Lorient	14 Jan, 1941	Lorient	Patrol,	30 days
5.	U-95	16 Feb, 1941	Lorient	19 Mar, 1941	St. Nazaire	Patrol,	32 days
6.	U-95	12 Apr, 1941	St. Nazaire	13 May, 1941	St. Nazaire	Patrol,	32 days
7.	U-95	30 Jun, 1941	St. Nazaire	31 Jul, 1941	St. Nazaire	Patrol,	32 days
8.	U-95	21 Aug, 1941	St. Nazaire	20 Sep, 1941	Lorient	Patrol,	31 days
9.	U-95	19 Nov, 1941	Lorient	28 Nov, 1941	Sunk	Patrol,	10 days
					9 patrols, 206 days at sea

Ships hit by Gerd Schreiber

Date	Boat	Name of ship	Tons	Nat.		Convoy	Fate *
27 Nov, 1940	U-95	Irene Maria	1.862		br	OB-248
28 Nov, 1940	U-95	Ringhorn	1.298		nw	OB-248	damaged
2 Dec, 1940	U-95	Conch	8.376		br	HX-90	damaged
26 Dec, 1940	U-95	Waiotira	12.823		br		damaged

24 Feb, 1941	U-95	Cape Nelson	3.807		br	OB-288
24 Feb, 1941	U-95	Svein Jarl	1.908		nw	OB-288
24 Feb, 1941	U-95	Temple Moat	4.427		br	OB-288
2 Mar, 1941	U-95	Pacific	6.034		br	HX-109
5 Mar, 1941	U-95	Murjek	5.070		sw
3 May, 1941	U-95	Taranger	4.873		nw
20 Jul, 1941	U-95	Palma	5.419		br		damaged
6 Sep, 1941	U-95	Trinidad	434		pa
			56.331
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk.