List of all U-boats
U-276
Type | VIIC | ||||||||||||||||
| Ordered | 10 Apr 1941 | ||||||||||||||||
| Laid down | 24 Feb 1942 | Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft, Bremen-Vegesack (werk 41) | |||||||||||||||
| Launched | 24 Oct 1942 | ||||||||||||||||
| Commissioned | 9 Dec 1942 | Oblt. Jürgen Timme | |||||||||||||||
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| Career 3 patrols |
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| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | ||||||||||||||||
| Fate |
Decommissioned on 29 September 1944 at Lübeck and used as electricity generation plant at Neustadt. Sunk on 3 May 1945 at Neustadt by rockets from four British Typhoon aircraft (175 Sqn RAF). Wreck broken up in 1947. | ||||||||||||||||
Attacks on this boat and other events
25 May 1944
01.50 hrs, Norwegian Sea: surprise attack by a British B-24 Liberator (59 Sqdn RAF/C) in bad weather. The aircraft strafed the U-boat heavily and carried out two bombing runs, dropping six and then two depth charges. However, the bomb aimer had accidentally turned off the fusing switches while adjusting his intercom plug during the approach, which meant the depth charges didn't detonate. U-276 could only put up light and inaccurate flak at first because the 37mm gun malfunctioned after the first round, three of the 20mm twin gun crew were wounded, and two more men were injured when hit by waves. The U-boat escaped by crash diving after the second attack and made for Trondheim to land the wounded. [Maschinenmaat Hans Liedtke died from his wounds on 26 May] (Sources: Ritschel, ADM 199/1786)
1 recorded attack on this boat.
Men lost from the boat
2 May 1944
Two men were wounded in an accident with the anti-aircraft gun.
25 May 1944
01.50 hrs, Norwegian Sea: surprise attack by a British B-24 Liberator (59 Sqdn RAF/C) in bad weather. The aircraft strafed the U-boat heavily and carried out two bombing runs, dropping six and then two depth charges. However, the bomb aimer had accidentally turned off the fusing switches while adjusting his intercom plug during the approach, which meant the depth charges didn't detonate. U-276 could only put up light and inaccurate flak at first because the 37mm gun malfunctioned after the first round, three of the 20mm twin gun crew were wounded, and two more men were injured when hit by waves. The U-boat escaped by crash diving after the second attack and made for Trondheim to land the wounded. [Maschinenmaat Hans Liedtke died from his wounds on 26 May]
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
U-boat Emblems
We have 1 emblem entry for this boat. See the emblem page for this boat or view emblems individually below.
 Sword on a Shield |
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