List of all U-boats
U-265
Type | VIIC | |||||||||
| Ordered | 15 Aug 1940 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 3 Jul 1941 | Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft, Bremen-Vegesack (werk 30) | ||||||||
| Launched | 23 Apr 1942 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 6 Jun 1942 | Oblt. Leonhard Auffhammer | ||||||||
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| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | |||||||||
| Fate |
Sunk on 3 February 1943 in the North Atlantic south of Iceland, in position 56.35N, 22.49W, by depth charges from a British Fortress aircraft (220 Sqn RAF/N). 46 dead (all hands lost). | |||||||||
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Men lost from the boat
28 Jun 1942
Three crew members drowned while bathing at the seaside resort Heringsdorf-Neuhof when U-265 was based at the nearby Swinemünde for trials. [Obermaschinist Fredy Schönbeck, Maschinenobergefreiter Hinrich Engelkes, Mechanikergefreiter Helmut Fritz Wolfgang Olbrich]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
U-boat Emblems
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