Unterseeboot 1226

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U-1226
Type		IXC/40
Launch Date		September 18, 1943
Commission Date		December 8, 1943
Construction yard		Deutschewerft, Hamburg
Patrols
Start Date	End Date	Assigned Unit
September 30, 1944	October, 1944	2nd Flotilla
Commanders
November, 1943	October, 1944	Kptlt. August-Wilhelm Claussen
Successes
Type of Ship Sunk	Number of Ships Sunk	Gross Registered Tonnage
Commercial Vessels	None	0
Military Vessels	None	0

Unterseeboot 1226 (usually abbreviated to U-1226) was a very short-lived German U-boat, built during World War II for service in the Second Battle of the Atlantic. The submarine was completed in Hamburg in November 1943, and placed under the command of Kptlt. August-Wilhem Claussen, whose brother Emil had been killed onboard U-469 the previous year. She underwent working up cruises in the Baltic Sea before embarking on her only operational patrol from Horten in Norway during September 1944.

This patrol was uneventful for the first three weeks during the Atlantic crossing as she deliberately avoided the highly-effective allied countermeasures. U-1226 arrived on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States sometime around the 28 October, but following this nothing more was heard from her. It is possible she was sunk in an unrecorded encounter with an allied ship or aircraft, or more likely she suffered some unknown catastrophic accident which claimed the boat and all its crew^[1]. Whatever the cause, she was given up for lost in mid-November and her remains have never been discovered, lost somewhere deep in the Atlantic Ocean.