Philipp Schüler

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 34)

Successes
4 ships sunk, total tonnage 6,801 GRT
1 ship damaged, total tonnage 5,133 GRT
1 warship a total loss, total tonnage 1,540 tons

Born	17 Oct 1911		Frankfurt am Main
Died	19 Apr 1943	(31)	Western Approaches

Ranks

8 Apr 1934		Offiziersanwärter
1 Jul 1935		Fähnrich zur See
1 Jan 1937		Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Apr 1937		Leutnant zur See
1 Apr 1939		Oberleutnant zur See
1 Feb 1942		Kapitänleutnant

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
U-141	31 Mar 1941	29 Nov 1941	4 patrols (88 days)
U-602	29 Dec 1941	19 Apr 1943 (+)	4 patrols (109 days)

Patrol info for Philipp Schüler

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-141	13 Apr 1941	Kiel	17 Apr 1941	Bergen		5 days
2.	U-141	29 Apr 1941	Bergen	11 May 1941	Lorient	Patrol 1,	13 days
3.	U-141	31 May 1941	Lorient	26 Jun 1941	Lorient	Patrol 2,	27 days
4.	U-141	14 Jul 1941	Lorient	1 Aug 1941	Lorient	Patrol 3,	19 days
5.	U-141	21 Aug 1941	Lorient	18 Sep 1941	Kiel	Patrol 4,	29 days
6.	U-602	26 Sep 1942	Kiel	6 Nov 1942	Lorient	Patrol 5,	42 days
7.	U-602	1 Dec 1942	Lorient	21 Dec 1942	La Spezia	Patrol 6,	21 days
8.	U-602	6 Feb 1943	La Spezia	9 Mar 1943	Toulon	Patrol 7,	32 days
9.	U-602	6 Apr 1943	Toulon	19 Apr 1943	Sunk	Patrol 8,	14 days
8 patrols, 197 days at sea

Ships hit by Philipp Schüler

Date	U-boat	Name of ship	Tons		Convoy
22 Jun 1941	U-141	Calabria	1,277	sw	SL-76
26 Jul 1941	U-141	Botwey	5,106	br	OS-1
26 Jul 1941	U-141	Atlantic City (d.)	5,133	br	OS-1
5 Sep 1941	U-141	Jarlinn	190	is
6 Sep 1941	U-141	King Erik	228	br

9 Dec 1942	U-602	HMS Porcupine (G 93) (t.)	1,540	br
			13,474
5 ships sunk (8,341 tons) and 1 ship damaged (5,133 tons). Legend We have a picture of this vessel. (d.) means the ship was damaged. (t.) means the ship was a total loss (included in ships & tonnage lost).

About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.