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U-boat Shipyard report

Ordered (0)	Laid down (0)	Launched (0)	Commissioned (3)
No U-boat orders on this date	No boats laid down on this date	No boats launched on this date	1940: U-138 1944: U-927, U-2501
These are commissioned boats. For more see our Shipyard pages.

Allied Ships hit on this date

	U-boat	Commander	Name of ship	Tons	Country	Convoy
1940
	U-47	Prien	Lenda	4,005	nw
	U-47	Prien	Leticia	2,580	nl
1941
	U-123	Hardegen	Oberon	1,996	nl	SL-78
	U-123	Hardegen	P.L.M. 22	5,646	br	SL-78
	U-149	Höltring	M-99	206	sj
	U-564	Suhren	Kongsgaard (d)	9,467	nw	HX-133
	U-564	Suhren	Maasdam	8,812	nl	HX-133
	U-564	Suhren	Malaya II	8,651	br	HX-133
	U-69	Metzler	Empire Ability	7,603	br	SL-78
	U-69	Metzler	River Lugar	5,423	br	SL-78
	U-79	Kaufmann	Tibia (d)	10,356	nl	HX-133
1942
	U-126	Bauer	Leiv Eiriksson	9,952	nw
	U-128	Heyse	Polybius	7,041	am
	U-129	Witt	Las Choapas	2,005	me
	U-129	Witt	Tuxpam	7,008	me
	U-153	Reichmann	Potlatch	6,085	am
	U-404	Bülow	Moldanger	6,827	nw
	U-701	Degen	British Freedom (d)	6,985	br	KS-514
1943
	U-511	Schneewind	Sebastian Cermeno	7,194	am
	U-73	Deckert	Abbeydale (d)	8,299	br	XTG-2
	U-81	Krieg	Michalios	3,742	gr
1944
	unknown		HMS Pink (K 137) total loss	925	br
	U-19	Ohlenburg	Barzha (No 75)	1,000	sj
				131,808
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. (d) = damaged See all Allied ships hit by U-boats during WWII.

Attacks on this day

1941

U-69. After sinking two ships from convoy SL 78 U-69 was briefly fired on by escorts in the confusion following the attack. She escaped unharmed. (Blair, vol 1, page 302)

U-123. Having torpedoed two ships from convoy SL 78, the boat was depth charged for 11 hours, but escaped by going very deep - down to 654 feet (199m), below the range of British depth charges. (Blair, vol 1, page 302)

1943

U-518. 12.35 hrs, outbound, west of Finisterre: British Sunderland W6005 (RAF Sqdn 201/P, pilot F/O Brian E.H. Layne, RNZAF) strafed U-518 and dropped four depth charges. U-518 was damaged so badly she was forced to return to base, surviving another air attack on the way three days later. (Franks/Zimmerman)

U-81. U-81 had to retreat when shelled by coastal artillery after sinking Michalios three miles west of Latakia, Syria.

U-73. The boat was forced to return to base due to heavy damage from depth charging by escorts in the Mediterranean.

U-boats lost

1941: U-556

5 men died when this U-boat was lost. 41 men survived.

Survivors from U-boats almost always landed in allied captivity.

- For more information on U-boat losses check out our Fates section.

U-boat Men Lost or Wounded

There were no men lost from U-boats on this date, 27 June.

- For more information on Men lost from U-boats check out this page.

Personnel Information

The following men were born on this day:
Hans-Helmut Anschütz (1923), Eberhard Ebert (1907), Hartwig Looks (1917), Karl Mühlenpfordt (1909).

The following men died on this day:
Bernhard Luttmann (2003), Viktor Graf von Reventlow-Criminil (1992).

See the entire U-boat commander listing showing all U-boat commanders.
We might include more officers (Allied and Axis) at a later date.

U-boat departures and arrivals on 27 June

This section shows the U-boat departures and arrivals from bases on this day of the year. Current country names shown with harbour names. Boats entering port display days at sea during that patrol.

1940

Sailed:
From Wilhelmshaven, Germany: U-99

1941

U-boats entering base:
To Brest, France: U-204 (35 days)

1942

Sailed:
From Brest, France: U-201
From Kiel, Germany: U-597
From Lorient, France: U-116

1943

Sailed:
From Feodosia, Ukraine: U-24
From Konstanza, Rumania: U-23
From Marviken: U-387
From Toulon, France: U-375

U-boats entering base:
To Bergen, Norway: U-277 (6 days)
To Toulon, France: U-431 (23 days)

1944

Sailed:
From Bergen, Norway: U-242
From Brest, France: U-390 (lost 9 days later)
From La Spezia, Italy: U-230
From Narvik, Norway: U-361 (lost 21 days later), U-636
From Reval: U-1193

U-boats entering base:
To Bergen, Norway: U-1192 (6 days)
To Kiel, Germany: U-855 (3 days)
To Kristiansand U-999 (20 days)
To Marviken U-1007 (18 days)

U-boats at sea on 27 June

Boats entering port on this day are not counted, but boats departing for patrol are. (+) indicates the boat was lost during this patrol.

1945

U-530, U-977.
2 boats at sea.

General Events on 27 June

1940

After sinking the Dutch merchantman Leticia, U-47 rescued three survivors and put them in a lifeboat with the rest of the shipwrecked crew.

1942

Convoy PQ 17 sailed from Iceland.

After sinking the American merchantman Potlatch, U-153 gave the survivors cigarettes after questioning them.

1943

U-18 encountered a Soviet submarine in the Black Sea, but neither boat attacked.

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