Rupprecht Stock

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 37a)

Successes
1 ship sunk, total tonnage 200 GRT
1 warship sunk, total tonnage 1,525 tons
1 ship damaged, total tonnage 6,507 GRT

Born	16 Feb 1916		Frankfurt am Main
Died	3 Dec 2002	(86)

Ranks

3 Apr 1937		Offiziersanwärter
21 Sep 1937		Seekadett
1 May 1938		Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul 1939		Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Aug 1939		Leutnant zur See
1 Sep 1941		Oberleutnant zur See
1 Jun 1944		Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

		Iron Cross 2nd Class
		Iron Cross 1st Class
18 Aug 1944		German Cross in Gold

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
U-214	7 May 1943	10 May 1943	No war patrols
U-214	11 May 1943	Jul, 1943	1 patrol (40 days)
U-214	29 Jul 1943	Jul, 1944	3 patrols (196 days)
U-218	Aug, 1944	12 May 1945	2 patrols (93 days)

Patrol info for Rupprecht Stock

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-214	18 May 1943	Brest	26 Jun 1943	Brest	Patrol 1,	40 days
2.	U-214	22 Aug 1943	Brest	30 Nov 1943	Brest	Patrol 2,	101 days
3.	U-214	12 Feb 1944	Brest	15 Feb 1944	Brest	Patrol 3,	4 days
4.	U-214	19 Feb 1944	Brest	29 Apr 1944	Brest	Patrol 3,	71 days
5.	U-214	11 Jun 1944	Brest	14 Jun 1944	Brest	Patrol 4,	4 days
6.	U-214	17 Jun 1944	Brest	2 Jul 1944	Brest	Patrol 4,	16 days
7.	U-218	10 Aug 1944	Brest	23 Sep 1944	Bergen	Patrol 5,	45 days
8.	U-218	6 Oct 1944	Bergen	12 Oct 1944	Flensburg		7 days
9.	U-218	17 Oct 1944	Flensburg	17 Oct 1944	Kiel		1 days
10.	U-218	6 Mar 1945	Kiel	7 Mar 1945	Stranderbucht		2 days
11.	U-218	10 Mar 1945	Stranderbucht	10 Mar 1945	Frederikshavn		1 days
12.	U-218	11 Mar 1945	Frederikshavn	12 Mar 1945	Horten		2 days
13.	U-218	14 Mar 1945	Horten	14 Mar 1945	Horten		1 days
14.	U-218	17 Mar 1945	Horten	20 Mar 1945	Bergen		4 days
15.	U-218	22 Mar 1945	Bergen	8 May 1945	Bergen, Norway	Patrol 6,	48 days
6 patrols, 329 days at sea

Ships hit by Rupprecht Stock

Date	U-boat	Name of ship	Tons
20 Jun 1943	U-214	Santa Maria (d.) [Mine]	6,507	am
14 Oct 1943	U-214	USS Dorado (SS 248) [Mine]	1,525	am

20 Apr 1945	U-218	Ethel Crawford [Mine]	200	br
			8,232
2 ships sunk (1,725 tons) and 1 ship damaged (6,507 tons). Legend We have a picture of this vessel. (d.) means the ship was damaged. [Mine] indicates the vessel was hit by a mine laid by said U-boat.

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.