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U-boat Shipyard report

Ordered (0)	Laid down (5)	Launched (2)	Commissioned (6)
No U-boat orders on this date	1935: U-11 1941: U-613, U-614 1943: U-1021, U-1022	1939: U-53 1944: U-778	1936: U-26 1942: U-263 U-337 1943: U-764 U-977 1944: U-325
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
1941
	U-103	Schütze	Dunkwa	4,752	br	OB-310
	U-103	Schütze	Surat	5,529	br
	U-105	Schewe	Oakdene	4,255	br	OG-59
	U-556	Wohlfarth	Emanuel	166	fa
	U-97	Heilmann	HMS Camito (F 77)	6,833	br
	U-97	Heilmann	Sangro	6,466	it
1942
	U-108	Scholtz	Abgara	4,422	le
	U-125	Folkers	Empire Buffalo	6,404	br
	U-125	Folkers	Green Island	1,946	am
	U-333	Cremer	Amazone	1,294	nl
	U-333	Cremer	Halsey	7,088	am
	U-333	Cremer	Java Arrow (d)	8,327	am
	U-507	Schacht	Alcoa Puritan	6,759	am
1944
	U-129	Harpe	Anadyr	5,278	br	TJ-30
				69,519
* 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

1943

U-456. After attacking convoy SL 128 west of Porto, Portugal, the boat was seriously damaged by depth charges or bombs, but was able to repair the damage and continue the patrol. (Blair, vol 2, page 296)

U-230. Despite being repeatedly attacked by aircraft while shadowing convoy SL 128 west of Porto, Portugal, U-230 nonetheless managed to maintain contact without suffering serious damage. (Blair, vol 2, page 297)

1944

U-548. Following U-548s sinking of the Canadian frigate HMS Valleyfield off St Johns Newfoundland, other Allied escorts (after finally deducing what had happened) hunted the boat, with no success. (Blair, vol 2, page 562)

1945

U-3503. The target of the attack by a British Liberator (RAF Sqn 86/K), often credited with sinking U-2534, was actually U-3503, which escaped with minor damage.

U-boats lost

1943: U-125 +, U-192 +, U-438 +, U-531 +, U-630 +
1944: U-473 , U-765 , U-66
1945: U-853 +, U-881 +, U-3523 +

508 men died when those 11 U-boats were lost on this date. 77 men survived.

Survivors from U-boats almost always landed in allied captivity.
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

1944

U-348
Two men stepped on a land mine near Stavanger, Norway. One was killed, the other wounded. The boat departed for its second patrol from Bergen on the 20th. [Bootsmaat Günter Labahn]

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

Personnel Information

The following men were born on this day:
Hans Gessner (1919), Hermann Hansen (1918), Hans-Georg Hess (1923), Rolf Thomsen (1915).

The following men died on this day:
Ulrich Folkers (1943), Dr. Karl-Heinz Frischke (1945), Helmut Frömsdorf (1945), Werner Happe (1943), Heinrich Heinsohn (1943), Herbert Neckel (1943), Gerhard Seehausen (1944), Heinz Sternberg (1944), Werner Winkler (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 6 May

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.

1940

Sailed:
From Wilhelmshaven, Germany: U-24

U-boats entering base:
To Wilhelmshaven, Germany: U-25 (34 days)

1941

Sailed:
From Kiel, Germany: U-109

U-boats entering base:
To St. Nazaire, France: U-552 (30 days)

1942

Sailed:
From Brest, France: U-404
From La Spezia, Italy: U-205
From Salamis, Greece: U-81

U-boats entering base:
To Kirkenes U-376 (8 days), U-378 (8 days), U-589 (8 days)
To La Spezia, Italy: U-375 (10 days)
To Narvik, Norway: U-88 (3 days)

1943

Sailed:
From St. Nazaire, France: U-666

U-boats entering base:
To La Pallice U-613 (45 days)

1944

Sailed:
From Kiel, Germany: U-292, U-719, U-958
From Narvik, Norway: U-354
From St. Nazaire, France: U-255

U-boats entering base:
To Bergen, Norway: U-534 (10 days)
To Konstanza, Rumania: U-19 (27 days)
To Kristiansand U-675 (3 days)
To Narvik, Norway: U-289 (18 days)

1945

U-boats entering base:
To Bergen, Norway U-2511 (4 days)
To Harstad U-968 (16 days)

U-boats at sea on 6 May

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

1940

U-9, U-57, U-59, U-61, U-65, UA.
6 boats at sea.

General Events on 6 May

1945

U-195 was taken over by the Japanese navy at Surabaya (Indonesia).

U-219 was taken over by the Japanese navy at Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia).

U-181 and U-862 were taken over by the Japanese navy at Singapore.

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