List of all U-boats
U-197
Type | IXD2 | |||||||||
| Ordered | 4 Nov 1940 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 5 Jul 1941 | AG Weser, Bremen (werk 1043) | ||||||||
| Launched | 21 May 1942 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 10 Oct 1942 | Kptlt. Robert Bartels | ||||||||
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| Career 1 patrol |
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| Successes | 3 ships sunk, total tonnage 21,267 GRT 1 ship damaged, total tonnage 7,181 GRT | |||||||||
| Fate |
Sunk 20 Aug 1943 south of Madagascar, in position 28.40S, 42.36E, by depth charges from 2 British Catalina aircraft (Sqdn. 259/C & 265/N). 67 dead (all hands lost). | |||||||||
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Attacks on this boat and other events
20 May 1943
The boat was strafed and bombed by an American B-25 Mitchell bomber northeast of Ascension Island. The periscope was damaged and one man wounded by gunfire, who died the next day. [Bootsmaat Viktor Rainer] (Sources: Ritschel)
1 recorded attack on this boat.
Men lost from the boat
4 Nov 1942
Obermaschinist Alfred Wernicke died following an accident in Kiel.
20 May 1943
The boat was strafed and bombed by an American B-25 Mitchell bomber northeast of Ascension Island. The periscope was damaged and one man wounded by gunfire, who died the next day. [Bootsmaat Viktor Rainer]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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