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Siegfried Strelow

Korvettenkapitän (Crew 31)

Successes
9 ships sunk for a total of 53.712 GRT
1 auxiliary warship sunk for a total of 2.456 GRT
3 warships sunk for a total of 855 tons

Born	15 Apr, 1911	Kiel
Died	9 Jul, 1943	North Atlantic

Kapitänleutnant Siegfried Strelow

Ranks

1 Jan, 1933	Fähnrich zur See
1 Jan, 1935	Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Apr, 1935	Leutnant zur See
1 Jan, 1937	Oberleutnant zur See
1 Oct, 1939	Kapitänleutnant
1 Jul, 1943	Korvettenkapitän

Decorations

25 Apr, 1940	Iron Cross 2nd Class
25 May, 1940	Iron Cross 1st Class
15 Apr, 1942	U-boat War Badge 1939
27 Oct, 1942	Knights Cross

U-boat Commands

U-435

30 Aug, 1941

9 Jul, 1943 (+)

8 patrols (249 days)

Personal information

Kapitänleutnant Siegfried Strelow after patrol

Siegfried Strelow began his naval career in April 1931. He served as torpedo officer on the ships Schleswig-Holstein, Admiral Graf Spee and on the destroyer Richard Beitzen. He served for a year on the speedboats S-9 and S-11 and for another year on the torpedo boat G-11 as commander.

During the war he commanded the torpedo boats Albatros and Löwe for six months each before he became torpedo officer on the light cruiser Leipzig.

After having gained experience of almost all types of vessels in the Kriegsmarine, Strelow then joined the U-boat force in April 1941.

Without any prior combat experience on U-boats he commissioned the Type VIIC U-boat U-435 in August 1941, and with this boat became one of the experienced and successful commanders in the Arctic Sea.

On six patrols he fought against several PQ and QP convoys with some success. In January 1943 he reached base at Brest, France and was from then on attached to the 1st flotilla. On his second patrol in the Atlantic U-435 was sunk with all hands by a British Wellington aircraft on 9 July 1943.

Patrol info

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-435	20 Jan, 1942	Kiel	16 Feb, 1942	Kirkenes	Patrol,	28 days
2.	U-435	18 Feb, 1942	Kirkenes	22 Feb, 1942	Trondheim		5 days
3.	U-435	16 Mar, 1942	Trondheim	5 Apr, 1942	Kirkenes	Patrol,	21 days
4.	U-435	7 Apr, 1942	Kirkenes	26 Apr, 1942	Kiel	Patrol,	20 days
5.	U-435	18 Jun, 1942	Kiel	20 Jun, 1942	Hela		3 days
6.	U-435	25 Jun, 1942	Hela	26 Jun, 1942	Kiel		2 days
7.	U-435	18 Jul, 1942	Kiel	25 Jul, 1942	Narvik		8 days
8.	U-435	25 Jul, 1942	Narvik	31 Aug, 1942	Skjomenfjord	Patrol,	38 days
9.	U-435	16 Sep, 1942	Skjomenfjord	28 Sep, 1942	Skjomenfjord	Patrol,	13 days
10.	U-435	30 Sep, 1942	Skjomenfjord	3 Oct, 1942	Bergen		4 days
11.	U-435	30 Nov, 1942	Bergen	10 Jan, 1943	Brest	Patrol,	42 days
12.	U-435	18 Feb, 1943	Brest	25 Mar, 1943	Brest	Patrol,	36 days
13.	U-435	20 May, 1943	Brest	9 Jul, 1943	Sunk	Patrol,	51 days
					8 patrols, 249 days at sea

Ships hit by Siegfried Strelow

Date	Boat	Name of ship	Tons	Nat.		Convoy	Fate *
30 Mar, 1942	U-435	Effingham	6.421		am	PQ-13
13 Apr, 1942	U-435	El Occidente	6.008		pa	QP-10
13 Apr, 1942	U-435	Harpalion	5.486		br	QP-10
20 Sep, 1942	U-435	HMS Leda (J 93)	835		br	QP-14
22 Sep, 1942	U-435	Bellingham	5.345		am	QP-14
22 Sep, 1942	U-435	Grey Ranger	3.313		br	QP-14
22 Sep, 1942	U-435	Ocean Voice	7.174		br	QP-14
29 Dec, 1942	U-435	Empire Shackleton	7.068		br	ONS-154
29 Dec, 1942	U-435	Norse King	5.701		nw	ONS-154
30 Dec, 1942	U-435	HMS Fidelity (D 57)	2.456		br	ONS-154
30 Dec, 1942	U-435	HMS LCV-752 [Trans.]	10		br	ONS-154
30 Dec, 1942	U-435	HMS LCV-754 [Trans.]	10		br	ONS-154

17 Mar, 1943	U-435	William Eustis	7.196		am	HX-229
			57.023
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. [Trans.] indicates the vessel was lost while being transported on another vessel.