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Siegfried Lüdden

Korvettenkapitän (Crew 36)


Successes
8 ships sunk for a total of 49.725 GRT
1 warship sunk for a total of 1.190 tons
1 ship damaged for a total of 9.977 GRT

Born  20 May, 1916Neubrandenburg, Stargard
Died  13 Jan, 1945Kiel


Kptlt. Siegfried Lüdden

Ranks

10 Sep, 1936Seekadett
1 May, 1937Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul, 1938Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Oct, 1938Leutnant zur See
1 Oct, 1940Oberleutnant zur See
1 Apr, 1943Kapitänleutnant
18 Mar, 1945Korvettenkapitän (posthumous)

Decorations

18 Dec, 1941Iron Cross 2nd Class
29 Dec, 1941U-boat War Badge 1939
8 Apr, 1942Iron Cross 1st Class
11 Feb, 1944Knights Cross
27 Sep, 1944U-boat Front Clasp

U-boat Commands

U-1885 Aug, 1942 - 9 Aug, 1944  3 patrols (356 days) 

Personal information

Leutnant zur See Siegfried Lüdden spent his first year as an officer in the Luftwaffe, but in April 1940 he entered U-boat officer training. After a short time on U-141 he was aide-de-camp for seven months in several flotillas.

On 11 April, 1943 on his first patrol with U-188 he sank the British destroyer HMS Beverley. His second patrol took him to Penang and later to Singapore in the Far East, where he took on board 100 tons of tin and other badly-needed materials for the German war industry and transported them to his French base in June 1944.

Korvkpt. Siegfried Lüdden died during a fire on the living-quarters-ship Daressalam in Kiel.


Patrol info


 U-boatDeparture Arrival  
1. U-188 4 Mar, 1943  Kiel4 May, 1943  LorientPatrol62 days
2. U-188 30 Jun, 1943  Lorient30 Oct, 1943  PenangPatrol123 days
3. U-188 1 Jan, 1944  Penang19 Jun, 1944  BordeauxPatrol171 days

Ships hit by Siegfried Lüdden


DateBoatName of shipTonsNat.ConvoyFate *
11 Apr, 1943 U-188HMS Beverley (H 64)1.190 br ON-176 
21 Sep, 1943 U-188Cornelia P. Spencer7.176 am 
5 Oct, 1943 U-188Britannia9.977 nw damaged
 
20 Jan, 1944 U-188Fort Buckingham7.122 br 
25 Jan, 1944 U-188Fort la Maune7.130 br 
26 Jan, 1944 U-188Samouri7.219 br 
26 Jan, 1944 U-188Surada5.427 br 
29 Jan, 1944 U-188Olga E. Embiricos4.677 gr 
3 Feb, 1944 U-188Chung Cheng7.176 ch 
9 Feb, 1944 U-188Viva3.798 nw 
 60.892

* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk.


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