List of all U-boats

U-351

Type

VIIC

 
Ordered9 Oct 1939
Laid down4 Mar 1940 Flensburger Schiffsbau-Ges, Flensburg (werk 470)
Launched27 Mar 1941
Commissioned20 Jun 1941Oblt. Karl Hause
Commanders
20 Jun 1941 - 14 Dec 1941  Oblt. Karl Hause
15 Dec 1941 - 24 Aug 1942  Oblt. Günther Rosenberg
25 Aug 1942 - 25 May 1943  Oblt. Eberhard Zimmermann
26 May 1943 - 5 Oct 1943  Oblt. Götz Roth
13 Dec 1943 - 30 Jun 1944  Oblt. Helmut Wicke
1 Jul 1944 - 19 Mar 1945  Oblt. Hans-Jürgen Schley
20 Mar 1945 - 5 May 1945  Oblt. Hugo Strehl
Career
No patrols
20 Jun 1941-31 Mar 1942  26. Flottille (training)
1 Apr 1942-30 Jun 1944  24. Flottille (training)
1 Jul 1944-28 Feb 1945  22. Flottille (school boat)
1 Mar 1945-5 May 1945  4. Flottille (training)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Scuttled on 5 May 1945 in Hörup Haff, in position 54.53N, 09.50E. Wreck broken up in 1948.

Final location

Attacks on this boat and other events

9 Mar 1945
U-351 was only limitedly able to dive after being slightly damaged by bombs during a Soviet air raid on Pillau, where it was used as electricity generation plant. Three crew members were killed, one seriously (who later died in a field hospital) and three lightly wounded. [Matrosenobergefreiter Karl-Heinz Kober (died on 11 March), Matrosenobergefreiter Franz Anton Xaver Lummer, Maschinenmaat Herbert Schwichtel, Matrosengefreiter Gottfried Storm]

1 recorded attack on this boat.

Men lost from the boat

9 Mar 1945
U-351 was only limitedly able to dive after being slightly damaged by bombs during a Soviet air raid on Pillau, where it was used as electricity generation plant. Three crew members were killed, one seriously (who later died in a field hospital) and three lightly wounded. [Matrosenobergefreiter Karl-Heinz Kober (died on 11 March), Matrosenobergefreiter Franz Anton Xaver Lummer, Maschinenmaat Herbert Schwichtel, Matrosengefreiter Gottfried Storm]

  Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -

U-boat Emblems

We have 2 emblem entries for this boat. See the emblem page for this boat or view emblems individually below.


Coat of Arms of Hamburg

Mermaid

Media links


U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1

Wynn, Kenneth


German U-Boat Losses During World War II

Niestle, Axel




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