• The 7th U-boat Flotilla (German 7. Unterseebootsflottille), also referred to as the Wegener Flotilla, was a combat unit within the Kriegsmarine, the naval...
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  • of U-boat flotillas contains lists of the German U-boat flotillas in the two World Wars. The bases shown here are the ones at which the flotillas spent...
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  • March 1941, U-47 lost one crewman, Heinrich Mantyk, who fell overboard on 5 September 1940. U-47 was assigned to the 7th U-boat Flotilla on 17 December...
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    served with the 7th U-boat Flotilla in Kiel. Reassigned to 3rd U-boat Flotilla on 1 March 1941, Hamburg was transferred to 6th U-boat Flotilla in Danzig in...
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    was assigned to the 7th U-boat Flotilla based in Kiel and later in St Nazaire. U-99 was one of the most successful German U-boats in the war, sinking...
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    on 31 January 1941. She served with 7th U-boat Flotilla until 1 June as a training boat, and as an operational boat until 17 July 1942, under the command...
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    four destroyers on a routine patrol, encountered the German 7th Half Flotilla of torpedo boats which was en route to the British coast to lay mines. The...
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    U-505 was assigned as an operational boat to the 2nd U-boat Flotilla on 1 February 1942, following training exercises with the 4th U-boat Flotilla from...
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    79 in) C/30 anti-aircraft gun. The boat had a complement of between forty-four and sixty. As part of the 7th U-boat Flotilla, stationed in Saint Nazaire, on...
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    Hans-Rudolf Rösing (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    duty on the staff of the Befehlshaber der U-Boote (Dönitz, q.v.), Rösing was posted to command 7th U-boat Flotilla at Kiel. This command lasted until 21 May...
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  • flotillas were: 1st U-boat Flotilla 2nd U-boat Flotilla 3rd U-boat Flotilla 6th U-boat Flotilla 7th U-boat Flotilla 9th U-boat Flotilla 10th U-boat Flotilla...
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  • assignments on U-96, Grade completed two more patrols on U-183 and then trained U-boat crews as a technical instructor for the submarine training flotilla until...
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    Herbert Schultze (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    the U-boat force, taking command of the Type IIA U-boat U-2 on 31 January 1938. U-2 was assigned to the U-Bootschulflottille (U-boat school flotilla); he...
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    11th U-boat Flotilla on 1 November 1942, then again to 13th U-boat Flotilla on 1 June 1943, and finally to 1st U-boat Flotilla on 1 November 1943. U-625...
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    two tankers were berthed inside the Normandie dock. The 6th and 7th U-boat flotillas, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Georg-Wilhelm Schulz and Korvettenkapitän...
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    Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    and appointed commander of the 9th U-boat Flotilla, stationed in Brest. On 2 September 1944 he assumed command of U-256 and escaped the besieged Brest...
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  • This is a list of World War II U-boat commanders. Only sunk merchant ships are counted in the totals; warships and damaged ships are not. Submariners suffered...
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    5th U-boat Flotilla, a training outfit. She was transferred to the 7th flotilla for operations at the beginning of 1942 and again to the 29th flotilla in...
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    Günther Prien (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    bull was painted on the conning tower of U-47 and soon became the emblem of the entire 7th U-boat Flotilla. The reason, given by 1st watch officer Engelbert...
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    provided command facilities and submarine crew accommodations for the 7th U-boat Flotilla. USS Beaver was depot ship for Squadron 50 at Rosneath before transfer...
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    to the 7th U-Boat Flotilla under the command of Kurt von Goßler. German Type VIIB submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIA submarines. U-49 had...
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  • under the command of Kapitänleutnant Joachim Matz to serve with the 7th U-boat Flotilla from 23 November 1940 until she was sunk on 7 March 1941. German...
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    The submarine base of Saint-Nazaire is one of five large fortified U-boat pens built by Germany during the Second World War in occupied Saint-Nazaire,...
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    Heinrich Bleichrodt (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    IWO brought U-109 back to Saint Nazaire and Bleichrodt went to hospital. He was transferred to a training job with the 27th U-boat Flotilla, spending five...
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    Otto Kretschmer (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    of the new Type VIIB U-99. He commissioned U-99 on 18 April 1940 which was part of the 7th U-boat Flotilla. After two months' training and shakedown manoeuvres...
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    Brandi. The boat's service began on 9 April 1942 with training as part of the 5th U-boat Flotilla. She was transferred to the 7th flotilla on 1 September...
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    and his crew decorated U-47's conning tower with a snorting bull mascot, later adopted as the emblem of the 7th U-boat Flotilla. He found himself in demand...
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    Erich Topp (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    U-552, a Type VIIC U-boat. On 4 December 1940, Topp took command of U-552 and commissioned the U-boat into the 7th U-boat Flotilla. Following sea trials...
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  • with the 1st U-boat Flotilla, undergoing training before being declared operational on 1 June 1941. She moved to the 29th U-boat Flotilla on 15 April 1942...
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  • 3rd U-boat Flotilla for training. She began operations with that flotilla on 1 August 1941 and joined the 7th Flotilla on 1 November. The U-boat was sunk...
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