Werner Lott

Korvettenkapitän (Crew 26)

Successes
4 ships sunk, total tonnage 7,850 GRT
1 ship damaged, total tonnage 6,014 GRT

Born	3 Dec 1907		Willenberg, East Prussia
Died	2 May 1997	(89)

Ranks

1 Apr 1926		Offiziersanwärter
26 Oct 1926		Seekadett
1 Apr 1928		Fähnrich zur See
1 Jun 1930		Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Oct 1930		Leutnant zur See
1 Oct 1932		Oberleutnant zur See
1 Apr 1936		Kapitänleutnant
1 Nov 1940		Korvettenkapitän

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
U-21	Sep, 1936	31 Mar 1937	No war patrols
U-32	15 Apr 1937	15 Aug 1937	No war patrols
U-35	15 Aug 1937	29 Nov 1939	3 patrols (52 days)

Sinking of Diamantis and the landing of its crew in Ireland
About 15.40 hours on 3 October 1939 the unescorted and neutral Diamantis (Master Panagos Pateras) was hit by one torpedo from U-35 and sank about 40 miles south-southwest of the Scilly Islands. She had been stopped in bad weather by the U-boat at 13.15 hours and the crew was ordered to abandon ship. After the first two G7a torpedoes fired exploded prematurely, a G7e torpedo was fired and worked correctly. Because the lifeboats were not suited for use in the bad weather, Lott decided to take all 28 crew members aboard and landed them the next day in Dingle Bay, Ireland (McShane, 2012).

Sources

McShane, M. (2012). Neutral Shores

Patrol info for Werner Lott

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-35	27 Aug 1939	Memel	1 Sep 1939	Kiel	Patrol 1,	6 days
2.	U-35	9 Sep 1939	Wilhelmshaven	12 Oct 1939	Wilhelmshaven	Patrol 2,	34 days
3.	U-35	18 Nov 1939	Wilhelmshaven	29 Nov 1939	Sunk	Patrol 3,	12 days
3 patrols, 52 days at sea

Ships hit by Werner Lott

Date	U-boat	Name of ship	Tons		Convoy
18 Sep 1939	U-35	Arlita	326	br
18 Sep 1939	U-35	Lord Minto	295	br
21 Sep 1939	U-35	Teakwood (d.)	6,014	br	OA-7
1 Oct 1939	U-35	Suzon	2,239	be
3 Oct 1939	U-35	Diamantis	4,990	gr
			13,864
4 ships sunk (7,850 tons) and 1 ship damaged (6,014 tons). Legend We have a picture of this vessel. (d.) means the ship was damaged.

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.