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22 September

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U-boat Shipyard report

Ordered (0)	Laid down (2)	Launched (6)	Commissioned (2)
No U-boat orders on this date	1941: U-633 1944: U-2348	1938: U-39 1941: U-511 1942: U-194 1944: U-2339, U-2515, U-3508	1943: U-233 U-287
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
1939
	U-4	Klot-Heydenfeldt	Martti-Ragnar	2,262	fi
	U-7	Heidel	Akenside	2,694	br
1940
	U-100	Schepke	Empire Airman	6,586	br	HX-72
	U-100	Schepke	Frederick S. Fales	10,525	br	HX-72
	U-100	Schepke	Scholar	3,940	br	HX-72
	U-100	Schepke	Simla	6,031	nw	HX-72
	U-31	Prellberg	Union Jack	81	fa
	U-32	Jenisch	Collegian (d)	7,886	br	HX-72
1941
	U-103	Winter	Edward Blyden	5,003	br	SL-87
	U-103	Winter	Niceto de Larrinaga	5,591	br	SL-87
	U-562	Hamm	Erna III	1,590	br	ON-16
	U-68	Merten	Silverbelle	5,302	br	SL-87
1942
	U-435	Strelow	Bellingham	5,345	am	QP-14
	U-435	Strelow	Grey Ranger	3,313	br	QP-14
	U-435	Strelow	Ocean Voice	7,174	br	QP-14
	U-582	Schulte	Vibran	2,993	nw
1944
	U-979	Meermeier	USS Yukon (AF 9) (d)	5,969	am
				82,285
* 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

1940

U-100. At the end of a very successful attack on convoy HX 72 in the Atlantic west of Ireland, the boat tried to hit Putney Hill with her last torpedo at 02.57 hrs, but missed, and was driven off by three rounds of shellfire from the merchantman. (Ritschel)

1943

U-377. On 22 Sept a British B-24 Liberator (Sqdn 10) attacked U-377, wounding the commander. The boat had to return to port under the command of the I WO.

U-377 on arrival at Brest. The wounded commander, Oblt.z.S. Kluth is wearing a white cap, standing to the left of the flotilla commander

U-270. The pressure hull was cracked by depth charges in an attack by convoy escorts in mid Atlantic, forcing the boat to return to base. (Blair, vol 2, page 423)

U-boats lost

1943: U-229 +

50 men died when this U-boat was lost. There were no survivors.
U-boats marked with + were lost with all hands.

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

U-boat Men Lost or Wounded

1942

U-258
The navigator was lost overboard from U-258. [Obersteuermann Heinrich Wittmann]

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

Personnel Information

The following men were born on this day:
Diethelm Balke (1919), Hans-Dieter Mohs (1919), Heimar Wedemeyer (1906).

The following men died on this day:
Rolf Heinrich Fritz Albrecht (1986), Kurt Neide (1980), Robert Schetelig (1943).

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 22 September

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.

1941

Sailed:
From Kirkenes: U-566

U-boats entering base:
To Lorient, France: U-84 (45 days), U-109 (2 days)

1942

Sailed:
From Kiel, Germany: U-353, U-662, U-706
From Lorient, France: U-106, U-116 (lost 15 days later), U-256
From Neidenfjord: U-601
From Skjomenfjord: U-405

U-boats entering base:
To La Pallice U-600 (71 days)

1943

Sailed:
From St. Nazaire, France: U-264, U-267

U-boats entering base:
To Narvik, Norway: U-354 (50 days)
To Sevastopol U-20 (7 days)
To Skjomenfjord U-302 (55 days)
To St. Nazaire, France: U-575 (3 days)

1944

Sailed:
From Kiel, Germany: U-716
From Narvik, Norway: U-737

U-boats entering base:
To Bergen, Norway: U-650 (32 days)
To Flensburg, Germany: U-539 (145 days)
To Horten, Norway: U-1003 (4 days)
To Kiel, Germany: U-716 (6 days)
To Narvik, Norway: U-293 (7 days)

U-boats at sea on 22 September

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

General Events on 22 September

1943

From 22 to 30 Sep, 1943, U-387 assisted the weather observation ship Kehdingen (WBS 6) in setting up meteorological station Schatzgräber on Prince George Land, in the Franz Josef Archipelago west of Svalbard on the Arctic Circle.

1944

U-1001 rescued 13 shipwrecked German soldiers from the Baltic and landed them at Libau on 2 October.

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