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26 January

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U-boat Shipyard report

Ordered (0)	Laid down (2)	Launched (3)	Commissioned (4)
No U-boat orders on this date	1940: U-331 1943: U-905	1945: U-2365, U-3529, U-3530	1943: U-670 1944: U-869 U-1230 1945: U-3524
These are commissioned boats. For more see our Shipyard pages.

Allied Ships hit on this date

	U-boat	Commander	Name of ship	Tons	Country	Convoy
1940
	U-57 [Mine]	Korth	HMS Durham Castle	8,240	br
1941
	U-105	Schewe	Lurigethan	3,564	br	SLS-61
1942
	U-106	Rasch	Traveller	3,963	br
	U-125	Folkers	West Ivis	5,666	am
	U-582	Schulte	Refast	5,189	br	ON-56
1943
	U-255	Reche	Krasnyj Partizan	2,418	sj
	U-358	Manke	Nortind	8,221	nw	HX-223
	U-431	Schöneboom	Hassan	80	sy
	U-594	Mumm	Kollbjørg	8,259	nw	HX-223
	U-607	Mengersen	Kollbjørg (d)	8,259	nw	HX-223
1944
	U-188	Lüdden	Samouri	7,219	br
	U-188	Lüdden	Surada	5,427	br
	U-360	Becker	Fort Bellingham (d)	7,153	br	JW-56A
	U-532	Junker	Walter Camp	7,176	am
	U-716	Dunkelberg	Andrew G. Curtin	7,200	am	JW-56A
	U-716	Dunkelberg	USS PTC-39	54	am	JW-56A
	U-957	Schaar	Fort Bellingham	7,153	br	JW-56A
	U-957	Schaar	USS PTC-38	54	am	JW-56A
1945
	U-1051	Holleben	HMS Manners (K 568) total loss	1,300	br
				96,595
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. (d) = damaged See all Allied ships hit by U-boats during WWII.

Attacks on this day

1942

U-753. The boat escaped with only minor damage after being rammed by a British escort in the Atlantic west of Ireland.

U-404. The periscope was damaged in an air attack in the North Atlantic.

U-boats lost

1945: U-1051 +

47 men died when this U-boat was lost. There were no survivors.
U-boats marked with + were lost with all hands.

- For more information on U-boat losses check out our Fates section.

U-boat Men Lost or Wounded

1943

U-847
During training in Wesermünde an accident occured while the machine gun was being fired. Casualties were one dead, one heavily wounded.

1944

U-545
The I WO was lost overboard in the North Atlantic. [Oberleutnant zur See Hans Wilkening]

- For more information on Men lost from U-boats check out this page.

Personnel Information

The following men died on this day:
Johannes Franz (1964), Heinrich von Holleben (1945), Otto Heinrich Nachtigall (2015), Hans-Ulrich Scholle (1968).

See the entire U-boat commander listing showing all U-boat commanders.
We might include more officers (Allied and Axis) at a later date.

U-boat departures and arrivals on 26 January

This section shows the U-boat departures and arrivals from bases on this day of the year. Current country names shown with harbour names. Boats entering port display days at sea during that patrol.

1940

U-boats entering base:
To Wilhelmshaven, Germany: U-14 (7 days), U-18 (9 days)

1942

Sailed:
From Helgoland, Germany: U-213
From Kristiansand: U-136
From Messina, Italy: U-561

U-boats entering base:
To St. Nazaire, France: U-69 (9 days)

1943

Sailed:
From Bergen, Norway: U-355, U-376
From La Spezia, Italy: U-77

U-boats entering base:
To Brest, France: U-440 (46 days)
To Salamis, Greece: U-205 (15 days)
To St. Nazaire, France: U-463 (52 days)

1944

Sailed:
From Bergen, Norway: U-313
From Bordeaux, France: UIT-22 (lost 46 days later)
From Brest, France: U-413
From Lorient, France: U-963
From Marviken: U-546, U-973, U-990
From Narvik, Norway: U-636

U-boats entering base:
To Brest, France: U-311 (63 days)
To Konstanza, Rumania: U-20 (26 days)
To St. Nazaire, France: U-382 (50 days)

1945

Sailed:
From Horten, Norway: U-866
From Königsberg: U-481
From Stavanger, Norway: U-296

U-boats entering base:
To Kiel, Germany: U-1165 (5 days)
To Narvik, Norway: U-711 (4 days)

U-boats at sea on 26 January

Boats entering port on this day are not counted, but boats departing for patrol are. (+) indicates the boat was lost during this patrol.

General Events on 26 January

1943

U-302 had to break off her patrol in the Barents Sea due to serious technical problems.

1944

A collision between U-360 and U-601 during operations against convoy JW 56A in the Barents Sea caused minor damage to both boats.

U-957 captured two survivors after sinking the British merchantman Fort Bellingham.

1945

The following A.P. report was released to the newswires: A Berlin broadcast asserted today that U-boats had sunk six fully-laden Allied supply ships and two destroyers en route from Britain to France. The broadcast declared that the cargo ships totaled approximately 43.900 tons and included three large tankers. There has been no Allied confirmation.

The following A.P. report was released to the newswires: The French news agency today quoted Ankara reports that one of Germany's new secret weapons is an "artillery submarine" which might be used for terror bombardments of American coastal cities. Neutral travelers who reached the Turkish city were declared to have said the submarines were in the final stages of construction. But the program was reported delayed by patriot sabotage so that there was little chance they could be used before the fall of Berlin.

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