Scuttled U-boats, May 1945

Scuttled U-boats - Type VII


U-boatDateCommander
U-2365 May 1945Oblt. Herbert Mumm
U-2675 May 1945Oblt. (R) Bernhard Knieper
U-28716 May 1945Oblt. Heinrich Meyer
U-2905 May 1945Oblt. (R) Heinz Baum
U-3162 May 1945Oblt. Gottfried König
U-3208 May 1945Oblt. Heinz Emmrich
U-3235 May 1945Oblt. Hans-Jürgen Dobinsky
U-3495 May 1945Oblt. Wolfgang Dähne
U-3515 May 1945Oblt. Hugo Strehl
U-3705 May 1945Oblt. (R) Karl Nielsen
U-3935 May 1945Oblt. (R) Friedrich-Georg Herrle
U-3975 May 1945Kptlt. Gerhard Groth
U-4285 May 1945Oblt. Hans-Ulrich Hanitsch
U-4753 May 1945Kptlt. Otto Stoeffler
U-5545 May 1945Oblt. Werner Remus
U-5603 May 1945Oblt. Paul Jacobs
U-7085 May 1945Oblt. Herbert Kühn
U-7175 May 1945Oblt. Siegfried von Rothkirch und Panthen
U-7215 May 1945Oblt. Ludwig Fabricius
U-7335 May 1945Oblt. Ulrich Hammer
U-7465 May 1945Oblt. Ernst Lottner
U-7485 May 1945Oblt. Gottfried Dingler
U-7505 May 1945Oblt. Justus Grawert
U-8225 May 1945Oblt. (R) Josef Elsinghorst
U-8275 May 1945Kptlt. Kurt Baberg
U-8285 May 1945Oblt. Alfred John
U-9035 May 1945Kptlt. Otto Tinschert
U-9044 May 1945Oblt. Günter Stührmann
U-9223 May 1945Oblt. Erich Käselau
U-9243 May 1945Oblt. Hans-Jürg Schild
U-9583 May 1945Oblt. Friedrich Stege
U-96320 May 1945Oblt. Rolf-Werner Wentz
U-97924 May 1945Kptlt. Johannes Meermeier
U-9995 May 1945Oblt. (R) Wolfgang Heibges
U-10072 May 1945Kptlt. Ernst von Witzendorff
U-10086 May 1945Oblt. Hans Gessner
U-10165 May 1945Oblt. Walther Ehrhardt
U-10565 May 1945Oblt. Gustav Schröder
U-11015 May 1945Oblt. Rudolf Dübler
U-11324 May 1945Oblt. Walter-Bruno Koch
U-11615 May 1945Kptlt. Bruno Schwalbach
U-11625 May 1945Kptlt. Hans-Heinrich Ketels
U-11684 May 1945Kptlt. Hans Umlauf
U-11702 May 1945Kptlt. Friedrich Justi
U-11923 May 1945Oblt. Karl-Heinz Meenen
U-11935 May 1945Oblt. Joachim Guse
U-11962 May 1945Oblt. Rene Ballert
U-12013 May 1945Oblt. Reinhold Merkle
U-12045 May 1945Oblt. Erwin Jestel
U-12053 May 1945Kptlt. Hermann Zander
U-12075 May 1945Oblt. (R) Kurt Lindemann
U-12758 May 1945Oblt. Günther Frohberg
U-13035 May 1945Oblt. Helmut Herglotz
U-13045 May 1945Oblt. (R) Walter Süss
U-13065 May 1945Oblt. (R) Ulrich Kiessling

The two type VIIC boats U-963 and U-979 were scuttled by their crews in late May 1945 off Portugal and Germany respectively.

U-1026 - U-1031 (6 boats, type VIIC/41) were scuttled in May 1945 but none of them had been commissioned at the time.

In addition U-1277 (VIIC/41) was scuttled by her crew on 6 June, 1945 near Oporto, Portugal.


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U-boat fates