The Type VIIC U-boat U-959 - German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net
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Type | VIIC | ||||||||||
| Ordered | 5 Jun 1941 | ||||||||||
| Laid down | 21 Mar 1942 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 159) | |||||||||
| Launched | 3 Dec 1942 | ||||||||||
| Commissioned | 21 Jan 1943 | Oblt. Martin Duppel | |||||||||
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| Career 2 patrols | |||||||||||
| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | ||||||||||
| Fate |
Sunk on 2 May 1944 in the Norwegian Sea south-east of Jan Mayen Island, in position 69.20N, 00.20W, by depth charges from a British Swordfish aircraft (842 Sqn RAF/K) of the British escort carrier HMS Fencer. 53 dead (all hands lost). | ||||||||||
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Wolfpack operations
U-959 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Boreas (29 Feb 1944 - 10 Mar 1944)
Thor (10 Mar 1944 - 15 Mar 1944)
Men lost from the boat
12 Aug 1943
A crew member was washed overboard during aircraft exercise about 40nm north of Rixhöft at 1602hrs. Despite wearing a life jacket he was not found during a search of four hours by six U-boats and the submarine tender Isar and drowned. [Bootsmaat Johann Toifl]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
U-boat Emblems
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